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REVISED  ORDINANCES 


OF 


THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE, 


COMPRISING   THE 


LAWS  OF  ILLINOIS  RELATING  TO  THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE,, 


AND   THE 


ORDINANCES  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES,. 


PUBLISHED  BY  AUTHORITY  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES.. 


CHICAGO: 
BEAOH,    BARNARD    &    CO,,  PRINTERS,   104    RANDOLPH  STREET, 


TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 


CONSTITUTIONAL  PROVISIONS,      .  .  .  . 

CHARTER  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE,  ..... 

STATUTES  RELATING  TO  MUNICIPAL  CORPORATIONS: 

Special  assessments  for  local  improvement  (Article  IX  of  General  Incor- 
poration Act),    ........  17 

Actions  £o  recover  fines  and  penalties,  how  brought,  ..  .  .31 

New  bond  for  old  indebtedness,  how  issued  (act  of  February  13,  1865),  31 
Sinking  fund  for  local  indebtedness,    .             .             .            .                         .38 

New  bonds  for  old  indebtedness  (act  of  March  26,  1872),  .  .  39 

Official  bonds,     .........  40 

Saloon  bonds,  ........  42 

Criminal  code,  duty  of  officers,  ......  43 

Elections,       .........  43 

Evidence,  .........  48 

Houses  of  ill  fame,  .......  4& 

Insurance  companies,     ........  49 

Jurisdiction  of  justices,        .......  50 

Marketing  produce,         ........  50 

Officers,  not  to  be  interested  in  contracts,  ....  50 

Officers,  resignation  and  vacancies,     ......  51 

Oil  inspection,  ........  52 

Ordinances,  punishment  for  violation  of,  .  .  .  .54 

Plats,  to  be  recorded,  etc.,  .......  55 

Police  magistrates,          .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  56 

Public  buildings,      ........  57 

Railroads,  .........  57 

Registration  of  electors,     .......  59 

Revenue  (act  of  March  30,  1872),         ......  64 

Revenue  (act  of  May  2,  1873),        ......  65 

Revenue  (act  of  May  23,  1877),  ......  65 

Revenue  (Article  VIII  of  the  General  Incorporation  Act),     .  .  65 


IV 


TABLE   OF    CONTENTS. 


Revenue  (act  of  May  30,  1881),      . 

Sewerage, 

Sidewalks, 

Vacation  of  streets, 

Telegraph  companies, 

Warrants  upon  treasurer,  how  issued, 

Water  works, 


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ORDINANCES  OF  THE    TOWN   OF  LAKE, 


LEGISLATIVE  AND  EXECUTIVE. 


CHAPTER  I.  The  board  of  trustees, 

II.  The  supervisor, 

III.  The  collector, 

IV.  The  town  clerk, 

V.  The  engineer  and  surveyor, 

VI.  The  town  attorney, 

VII.  Officers, 

VIII.  Seal, 


POLICE  AND  FIRE    DEPARTMENTS. 


IX.  Police, 

X.  Police  court, 

XI.  Calaboose, 

XII.  Fire  department  and  firemen,   . 


DEPARTMENT  OF  PUBLIC  WORKS. 


XIII.  Buildings, 

XIV.  Grades,      . 
XV.  Lamps, 

XVI.  Numbering  houses, 

XVII.  Plats,    . 

XVIII.  Plumbers, 


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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 


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XXI. 

XXII. 

XXIII. 

XXIV. 


XXV. 
XXVI. 
XXVII. 
XXVIII. 
XXIX. 
XXX. 
XXXI. 
XXXII. 
XXXIII. 
XXXIV. 
XXXV. 
XXXVI. 
XXXVII. 
XXXVIII. 
XXXIX. 
XL. 
XLI. 
XLII. 
XLIII. 
XLIV. 
XLV. 
XLVI. 
XLVII. 
XLVIII. 
XLIX. 
L. 
LI. 
LII. 
LIII. 
LIV. 
LV. 
LVI. 
LVII. 
LVIII. 
LIX. 
LX. 
LXI. 


Sewers  and  drains,  . 

Sidewalks    ...... 

Signs,     .... 

Streets,         .  .  .  . 

Trees,     ...... 

Water,          ...... 

MISCELLANEOUS    ORDINANCES. 

Amusements,     ..... 

Auctions  and  auctioneers, 

Bonds,     ...... 

Bread,  ...... 

Butterine,  ..... 

Coaches,  cabs  and  carts,    . 

Coal, 

Concealed  weapons,  . 

Dogs,      ...... 

Fire,  ...... 

Fire  arms,  fireworks  and  cannons,     . 

Gaming,       ...... 

Gas  companies  • 

Gun-powder  and  explosives, 

Hay, 

Health,          ...... 

Horses,    ...... 

Horse  railroads,  , 

Ice,          ...... 

Intelligence  offices,  . 

Licenses,  ..... 

Markets,        ...... 

Misdemeanors,  ..... 

Nuisances,   ...... 

Official  paper,    .  .         •   . 

Ordinances,  ..... 

Pawnbrokers  and  keepers  of  loan  offices, 
Pedlars,         ...... 

Porters  and  runners,     .... 

Pounds,         ...... 

Railroads,  ..... 

Saloons,         ...... 

Scavengers,        ..... 

Second-hand  dealers  and  keepers  of  junk-shops, 
Weighers,  ..... 

Weights  and  measures,     .... 

Repeal,  ..... 


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AN    ORDINANCE   in  regard  to  the  publication  of  the  general   ordinances  oj 

The  Town  of  Lake. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  board  of  trustees  of  The  Town  of  Lake: 

SECTION  1.  That  the  ordinances  and  laws  governing  The  Town  of  Lake,  as 
revised  and  arranged  in  sections  and  chapters,  and  passed  by  the  board  of  trustees 
of  said  town,  on  the  twenty-third  day  of  December,  A.  D.  1881,  be  and  the  same 
are  hereby  ordered  printed  and  published  in  a  bound  volume,  to  be  entitled,  "  The 
Revised  Ordinances  of  The  Town  of  Lake." 


STATE  OF  ILLINOIS,  ) 
COUNTY  OF  COOK,         I  ss. 
TOWN  OF  LAKE.  ) 

I,  Edward  Byrne,  town  clerk  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  do  hereby  certify  that  the 
above  and  foregoing  is  a  true  copy  of  an  ordinance  entitled,  "  An  ordinance  in 
regard  to  the  publication  of  the  general  ordinances  of  The  Town  of  Lake,"  passed 
by  the  board  of  trustees  of  said  town  on  the  twenty-third  day  of  December,  A.  D. 
1881. 

I  further  certify  that  the  original  ordinance,  of  which  the  foregoing  is  a  certified 
copy,  is  by  law  entrusted  to  my  custody  for  safe  keeping,  and  is  on  file  in  my 
office. 

WITNESS  my  hand  and  the  corporate  seal  of  said  town,  this  27th  day  of  Decem- 
ber, A.  D.  1881. 

EDWARD  BYRNE, 


CORPORATE  SEAL 

OF 
THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE. 


Town  Clerk. 


CONSTITUTIONAL  PROVISIONS 


AND 


STATUTORY  LAWS. 


CONSTITUTIONAL  PROVISIONS 

IN  RELATION  TO  TOWN  GOVERNMENTS. 

ARTICLE   IV. 

• 

SECTION  4.  No  person  who  has  been,  or  hereafter  shall  be,  con- 
victed of  bribery,  perjury,  or  other  infamous  crime,  nor  any  person 
who  has  been  or  may  be  a  collector  or  holder  of  public  moneys,  who 
shall  not  have  accounted  for,  and  paid  over,  according  to  law,  all 
such  moneys  due  from  him,  shall  be  eligible  to  the  general  assembly, 
or  to  any  office  of  profit  or  trust  in  this  state. 

§  22.     The  general  assembly  shall  not  pass  local  or  special  laws 

in  any  of  the  following  enumerated  cases,  that  is  to  say:  for 

*  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * 

incorporating  cities,  towns,  or  villages,  or   changing,  or  amending 

the  charter  of  any  town,  city  or  village. 
********* 

Creating,  increasing  or  decreasing  fees,  percentage  or  allowances 
of  public  officers,  during  the  term  for  which  said  officers  are  elected 
or  appointed. 

§  23.  The  general  assembly  shall  have  no  power  to  release,  or 
extinguish,  in  whole,  or  in  part,  the  indebtedness,  liability,  or  obliga- 
tion of  any  corporation,  or  individual,  to  this  state,  or  to  any  munici- 
pal corporation  therein. 

§  28.  No  law  shall  be  passed  which  shall  operate  to  extend  the 
term  of  any  public  officer  after  his  election  or  appointment. 

ARTICLE  V. 

SECTION  25.     All  civil  officers,  except  members  of  the  general 
assembly,  and  such  inferior  officers  as  may  be  by  law  exempted, 
shall,  before  they  enter  on  the  duties  of  their  respective  offices,  take 
and  subscribe  the  following  oath  or  affirmation: 
3  (3) 


4  CONSTITUTIONAL    PROVISIONS    IN 

I  do  solemnly  swear  or  affirm,  (as  the  case  may  be,)  that  I  will  support  the  Con- 
stitution of  the  United  States,  and  the  Constitution  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  and  that 

I  will  fait li fully  discharge  the  duties  of  the  office  of ,  according  to  the 

best  of  my  ability. 

And  no  other  oath,  declaration,  or  test  shall  be  required  as  a 
qualification. 


ARTICLE  VIII. 

SECTION  3.  Neither  the  general  assembly,  nor  any  county,  city, 
town,  township,  school  district,  or  other  public  corporation,  shall 
ever  make  any  appropriation,  or  pay  from  any  public  fund  what- 
ever, anything  in  aid  of  any  church  or  sectarian  purpose,  or  to  help 
support,  or  sustain,  any  school,  academy,  seminary,  college,  univer- 
sity, or  other  literary  or  scientific  institution,  controlled  by  any  church 
or  sectarian  denomination  whatever;  nor  shall  any  grant,  or  dona- 
tion of  land,  money,  or  other  personal  property,  ever  be  made  by 
the  state,  or  any  such  public  corporation,  to  any  church  or  for  any 
sectarian  purpose. 


ARTICLE  IX. 

SECTION  9.  The  general  assembly  may  vest  the  corporate  au- 
thorities of  cities,  towns  and  villages  with  po\ver  to  make  local 
improvements  bv  special  assessments,  or  bv  special  taxation  of  con- 
tiguous property,  or  otherwise.  For  all  other  corporate  purposes, 
all  municipal  corporations  mav  be  vested  with  authority  to  assess 
and  collect  taxes;  but  such  taxes  shall  be  uniform  in  respect  to  per- 
sons and  propertv,  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  bodv  imposing  the 
same. 

§  10.  The  general  assemblv  shall  not  impose  taxes  upon  mu- 
nicipal corporations,  or  the  inhabitants  or  property  thereof,  for  cor- 
porate purposes,  but  shall  require  that  all  the  taxable  property  within 
the  limits  of  municipal  corporations  shall  be  taxed  for  the  pavment 
of  debts  contracted  under  authority  of  law,  such  taxes  to  be  uniform 
in  respect  to  persons  and  propertv,  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
body  imposing  the  same.  Private  property  shall  not  be  liable  to  be 
taken  or  sold  for  the  payment  of  the  corporate  debts  of  a  municipal 
corporation. 

§  n.  No  person  who  is  in  default,  as  collector  or  custodian  of 
money  or  property  belonging  to  a  municipal  corporation,  shall  be 
eligible  to  any  office  in  or  under  such  corporation.  The  fees,  salary 


RELATION    TO    TOWN    GOVERNMENTS.  5 

or  compensation  of  no  municipal  officer  who  is  elected  or  appointed 
for  a  definite  term  of  office,  shall  be  increased  or  diminished  during 
such  term. 

^12.  No  county,  city,  township,  school  district,  or  other  mu- 
nicipal corporation,  shall  be  allowed  to  become  indebted  in  any  man- 
ner or  for  any  purpose,  to  an  amount,  including  existing  indebted- 
ness, in  the  aggregate  exceeding  five  per  centum  on  the  value  of 
the  taxable  property  therein,  to  be  ascertained  by  the  last  assessment 
for  state  and  county  taxes,  previous  to  the  incurring  of  such  indebt- 
edness. Any  county,  city,  school  district,  or  other  municipal  corpo- 
ration, incurring  any  indebtedness  as  aforesaid,  shall  before,  or  at 
the  time  of  doing  so,  provide  for  the  collection  of  a  direct  annual  tax- 
sufficient  to  pay  the  interest  on  such  debt  as  it  falls  due,  and  also  to 
pay  and  discharge  the  principal  thereof  within  twenty  years  from 
the  time  of  contracting  the  same.  This  section  shall  not  be  construed 
to  prevent  any  county,  city,  township,  school  district,  or  other  mu- 
nicipal corporation,  from  issuing  their  bonds  in  compliance  with  any 
vote  of  the  people  which  may  have  been  had  prior  to  the  adoption 
of  this  constitution  in  pursuance  of  any  law  providing  therefor. 


ARTICLE  XL 

SECTION  4.  No  law  shall  be  passed  by  the  general  assembly 
granting  the  right  to  construct  and  operate  a  street  railroad  within 
any  city,  town  or  incorporated  village,  without  requiring  the  consent 
of  the  local  authorities  having  the  control  of  the  street  or  highway 
proposed  to  be  occupied  by  such  street  railroad. 


MUNICIPAL   SUBSCRIPTIONS  TO  RAILROADS,  ETC. 

No  county,  city,  town,  township  or  other  municipality,  shall  ever 
become  subscriber  to  the  capital  stock  of  any  railroad  or  private 
corporation,  or  make  donation  to  or  loan  its  credit  in  aid  of  such 
corporation :  Provided,  however,  that  the  adoption  of  this  article  shall 
not  be  construed  as  affecting  the  right  of  any  such  municipality  to 
make  such  subscriptions  where  the  same  have  been  authorized, 
under  existing  laws,  by  a  vote  of  the  people  of  such  municipalities 
prior  to  such  adoption. 


CHARTER  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE, 


AN  ACT  to  revise  the  charter  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  in  Cook  county.     [Approved 

March  26,  1869.] 

Name  and  style.\  §  i .  Be  it  enacted  by  the  P co-pie  of  the  State  of 
Illinois,  represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That  the  inhabitants  and 
residents  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  in  the  county  of  Cook,  and  State 
of  Illinois,  be  and  they  are  hereby  constituted  a  body  corporate,  by 
the  name  and  style  of  "The  Town  of  Lake;"  and  by  that  name 
shall  have  perpetual  succession,  and  may  have  and  use  a  common 
seal,  which  they  may  change  and  alter  at  pleasure;  may  sue  and 
be  sued,  plead  and  be  impleaded  in  all  courts  of  law  and  equity, 
in  all  actions  whatsoever;  and  purchase,  receive  and  hold  property 
real  and  personal,  within  and  beyond  the  limits  of  said  town,  for 
public  grounds  or  town  purposes,  for  the  use  of  the  inhabitants 
of  said  town;  and  may  sell,  lease  or  dispose  of  town  property, 
real  and  personal,  for  the  benefit  of  said  town,  and  improve  and 
protect  such  property,  and  do  all  things  in  relation  thereto  as  nat- 
ural persons  may  lawfully  do. 

Boundaries— election.^  §  2.  The  boundaries  of  said  town  shall 
include  within  their  limits,  all  that  district  of  country  now  known 
as  The  Town  of  Lake,  in  the  county  of  Cook,  and  State  of  Illinois. 
The  election  for  the  officers  contemplated  by  this  act,  shall  be  held 
on  the  second  Tuesday  in  April. 

Officers  —  government  vested  in  board  of  trustees?^  §  3.  The 
officers  of  said  town  shall  consist  of  the  following  officers  only, 
to  wit:  A  supervisor,  assessor,  collector,  town  clerk  and  such  jus- 
tices of  the  peace  and  constables  as  are  now  provided  by  law, 
who  shall  be  elected  in  the  (same)  manner,  and  hold  their  office 
for  the  same  length  of  time,  and  perform  the  duties  provided  by  law 
for  such  officers  respectively,  in  other  towns  in  Cook  county,  except 
as  otherwise  provided  by  this  act.  The  government  and  corporate 
powers  of  said  town  shall  be  vested  in  and  exercised  by  a  board  of 
five  trustees,  to  consist  of  the  supervisor,  assessor,  collector  and  two 
trustees  to  be  elected  as  provided  in  this  act.  The  election  of  town 
officers  and  trustees  may  be  contested  as  in  other  cases  of  town 


8 


CHARTER    OF    THE 


officers.  When  the  office  of  any  town  officer  or  trustee  shall  be- 
come vacant,  the  same  shall  be  filled  by  the  board  of  trustees;  and 
the  board  shall  fix  the  place  of  holding  all  elections  in  said  town. 

Election  of  president — -duties  of  the  town  clerkJ\  §  4.  The  said 
board  shall  elect  from  their  number  a  president  (Provided,  that  the 
supervisor  shall  not  be  eligible  to  such  office  of  president),  who  shall 
preside  at  the  meetings  of  the  board  and  preserve  order;  but  the  board 
may,  in  his  absence,  elect  a  chairman  pro  tern.  The  town  clerk  shall 
be  the  clerk  of  said  board,  and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  keep  correct 
minutes  of  all  their  proceedings.  He  shall  also  record,  in  a  book  to 
be  kept  for  that  purpose,  all  the  ordinances,  orders  or  regulations 
passed  by  said  board,  of  a  police  or  sanitary  nature;  and  he  shall 
also  record,  in  a  separate  book  to  be  kept  for  that  purpose,  all  orders 
for  special  assessments;  which  said  records  shall  be  open  to  the 
inspection  of  any  inhabitant  of  said  town.  A  certified  copy  of  any 
order,  ordinance  or  proceeding  of  said  board,  under  the  hand  of  the 
clerk  and  the  seal  of  the  town,  shall  be  evidence,  in  all  courts  and 
places,  of  the  truth  of  the  matter  therein  stated. 

Assessor  ex  officio  commissioner- — supervisor  to  be  treasurer  his 
duties  and  compensation^  §  5.  The  assessor  shall  be,  ex  officio, 
one  of  the  commissioners  of  special  assessments,  and  shall  perform 
the  duties  required  of  such  officer  by  the  terms  of  this  act.  The 
supervisor  shall  be  the  treasurer  of  the  town,  and  shall  receive  and 
hold  all  moneys  belonging  to  the  town,  arising  from  general  or  special 
taxes,  special  assessments,  fines,  penalties  or  otherwise;  and  he  shall, 
before  entering  on  the  duties  of  his  office,  execute  a  bond  to  The 
Town  of  Lake,  in  such  sum  and  with  such  sureties  as  shall  be 
approved  by  the  clerk  of  the  county  court  of  Cook  county,  condi- 
tioned that  he  will  faithfully  account  for  all  moneys  that  shall  come 
into  his  hands,  and  will  pay  the  same  over  pursuant  to  the  provisions 
of  law  or  the  order  or  resolution  of  the  board,  and  that  he  will  faith- 
fully perform  the  duties  of  his  office.  It  shall  be  his  duty  to  keep  a 
correct  account  of  all  moneys  received  and  paid  out  by  him,  and 
when  required,  to  furnish,  from  time  to  time,  to  the  board,  a  state- 
ment of  the  moneys  in  his  hands.  The  board  of  trustees  shall  be 
authorized  to  allow  such  compensation  as  they  shall  deem  proper, 
not  exceeding  two  per  cent,  on  the  amount  of  money  received  by 
him. 

Collector  to  give  bonds  and  security — -compensation^  §  6.  The 
collector  shall,  before  entering  on  the  duties  of  his  office,  exe- 
cute a  bond  to  The  Town  of  Lake,  in  such  sum  and  with 
such  securities  as  shall  be  approved  by  the  clerk  of  the 
county  court  of  Cook  county,  conditioned  that  he  will  well  and 


TOWN    OF    LAKE.  9 

truly  pay  over  and  account  for  all  moneys  that  may  come  into  his 
hands  as  collector,  to  the  party  or  parties  entitled  thereto,  and  that 
he  will  faithfully  discharge  the  duties  of  his  said  office.  Any  person, 
corporation,  county  or  other  body  or  officer  who  shall  be  entitled  to 
receive  any  such  moneys,  may  have  and  maintain  an  action  in  the 
name  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  to  the  use  of  such  persons,  corpora- 
tions, county  or  other  body  or  officer,  against  the  said  collector  and 
his  sureties  on  said  bond,  to  recover  the  amount  so  due. 

The  collector  shall  receive  a  compensation  on  all  town  moneys 
and  special  assessments  collected  by  him  not  to  exceed  five  per  cent.. 
to  be  determined  by  the  board  of  trustees  of  said  Town  of  Lake. 

.Qtonnn  to  do  business — meetings  of  board.\  §7.  A  majority 
of  said  board  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  business,  and  the 
said  board  are  authorized  to  make  rules  and  regulations  for 
their  government  and  order  of  business,  and  may  appoint 
such  standing  or  special  committees  as  they  shall  deem  proper. 
They  may  hold  meetings  from  time  to  time,  as  they  shall 
determine  by  their  rules,  and  may  adjourn  the  same;  and 
may  hold  special  meetings,  when  the  president  and  any  two  mem- 
bers shall  file  with  the  clerk  a  written  request  for  a  special  meeting; 
and  the  clerk  shall  thereupon  give  each  member  of  the  board  at 
least  one  day's  notice  in  writing,  in  such  manner  as  the  board  by  its 
rules '  shall  determine.  Each  member  of  said  board  shall,  before 
entering  on  the  duties  of  his  office,  take  an  oath  in  manner  and 
form  as  in  case  of  town  officers. 

Appropriation.^  §  8.  The  board  of  trustees  may,  from  time  to 
time,  appropriate  so  much  money  as  they  shall  deem  necessary  for 
the  purpose  of  making  the  improvements  which  they  are  authorized 
by  this  act  to  make,  and  in  carrying  out  the  provisions  hereof,  and 
their  orders,  by-laws,  resolutions  or  ordinances;  and  such  amount  shall 
be  deemed  a  tax  on  the  taxable  property  of  said  town.  It  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  clerk  of  said  board  to  file  with  the  clerk  of  the 
county  court  of  Cook  county,  a  certified  statement  of  the  amount 
appropriated  by  said  board,  as  aforesaid;  and  he  shall  include  such 
amount  under  the  head  of  "Town  Tax,"  in  the  next  general  war- 
rant issued  by  him  for  the  collection  of  state  and  county  taxes  in 
said  Town  of  Lake;  and  the  same  proceedings  in  all  respects  shall 
be  had  for  the  collection  of  the  same,  as  is  now  provided  by  law  for 
the  collection  of  state  and  county  taxes;  and  in  no  other  manner, 
nor  by  any  other  vote  or  authority,  shall  money  be  appropriated  or 
collected,  except  in  cases  of  fines  and  licenses,  and  except  in  cases  of 
special  assessment,  as  hereinafter  provided. 


IO  CHARTER    OF    THE 

Money  paid  out  on  warrant — annual  report '.]  §  9.  No  money  shall 
be  paid  out  by  the  treasurer  of  said  town,  unless  the  same  shall  have 
been  ordered  by  the  board,  and  then  only  upon  a  warrant  drawn  on 
him  by  the  clerk,  countersigned  by  the  president,  specifying  what 
particular  fund  the  same  shall  be  paid  out  of.  And  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  clerk  to  keep  an  account  of  all  such  warrants  drawn  by  him. 
The  said  board  shall,  at  the  annual  election,  present  to  the  voters  a 
printed  report,  showing  the  amount  of  moneys  ordered  and  collected, 
and  from  what  sources  derived,  and  the  manner  in  which  the  same 
have  been  disbursed.  No  member  of  said  board  shall  be  interested 
in  any  contract  made  with  them  for  the  purpose  of  making  any  of 
the  improvements  contemplated  by  this  act;  nor  shall  the  supervisor 
or  collector  be  entitled  to  a  vote  in  said  board  on  any  question 
regarding  their  respective  official  bonds  or  accounts. 

Orders  appropriating  money — votes  by  yeas  and  nays  neces- 
sary —  compensation  of  trusteesl\  §  10.  Upon  the  passage  of 
all  orders,  ordinances  or  resolutions,  appropriating  or  ordering 
the  payment  of  money,  imposing  taxes  or  for  special  assess- 
ments, the  yeas  and  nays  shall  be  called  and  entered  on 
the  record;  and  the  yeas  and  nays  shall,  in  like  manner,  be 
recorded,  whenever  called  for  by  any  member  on  any  question 
before  said  board.  The  members  of  said  board  shall  be  entitled 
to  receive  the  sum  of  three  dollars  for  each  day's  attendance  at 
the  meetings  of  the  board,  to  be  certified  to  by  the  clerk. 

Powers  and  duties  of  the  board  of  trustees^  §  1 1 .  The  said 
board  shall  have,  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  act,  the  general 
management  and  control  of  the  finances  and  all  the  property,  real, 
personal  and  mixed,  of  the  town,  and  shall  likewise  have  power, 
within  the  territory  aforesaid,  by  ordinance,  regulation  or  by-law: 

First. — To  restrain  and  prohibit  all  descriptions  of  gaming  and 
fraudulent  devices,  and  all  playing  of  dice,  cards,  and  other  games 
of  chance,  with  betting. 

Second. — To  regulate  and  license  the  selling  or  giving  away  of 
any  ardent  spirits,  by  any  shop-keeper,  grocer,  trader  or  other  per- 
son, to  be  drunk  in  any  shop,  store,  outhouse,  yard  or  other  place  in 
said  town. 

Third. — To  license,  regulate  and  restrain  tavern-keepers,  grocers 
and  keepers  of  ordinaries  or  victualling  or  other  houses,  gardens  or 
other  places,  for  selling  or  giving  away  wines  or  other  liquors, 
whether  ardent,  vinous  or  fermented. 


TOWN    OF    LAKE.  II 

Fourth. — To  license  and  regulate  billiard  tables,  pin  alleys,  nine 
or  ten  pin  alleys,  ball  alleys  and  shooting  galleries. 

Fifth. — To  authorize  the  president  of  the  board  to  grant  licenses, 
and  direct  the  manner  of  issuing  the  same,  and  the  registry  thereof, 
and  the  fees  to  be  paid  therefor:  Provided,  that  no  license  shall  be 
granted  for  more  than  one  year:  and  provided,  further,  that  not 
more  than  one  hundred  dollars  per  year  shall  be  charged  for  any 
license  granted  under  this  act,  by  said  board.  Bond  may  be  taken, 
payable  to  the  town,  on  the  granting  of  license,  for  the  due  obser- 
vance of  the  ordinances  and  regulations  of  the  board. 

Sixth. — To  prevent  any  riot  or  noise,  disturbance  or  disorderly 
assemblage. 

Seventh. — To  suppress  and  restrain  disorderly  houses  and  gro- 
ceries, and  houses  of  ill-fame,  and  to  authorize  the  destruction  and 
demolition  of  all  instruments  and  devices  used  for  the  purpose  of 
gaming. 

Eighth. — To  compel  the  owner  or  occupant  of  any  grocery  or 
cellar,  tallow  chandler  shop,  soap  factory,  tannery  or  other  unwhole- 
some, nauseous  houses  or  places,  to  cleanse  or  remove,  or  abate  the 
same,  from  time  to  time,  as  often  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  health, 
convenience  and  comfort  of  the  inhabitants  of  said  town. 

Ninth. — To  restrain,  regulate  or  prohibit  the  running  at  large  of 
cattle,  horses  or  other  animals,  or  the  driving  or  herding  the  same 
upon  the  public  highways,  or  alleys,  or  lands  in  said  town,  and  to 
authorize  the  distraining,  impounding  and  sale  of  the  same,  for  the 
penalty  incurred,  and  the  costs  of  proceedings,  and  also  to  impose 
penalties  on  the  owners,  drivers  or  herdsmen  of  any  such  animals, 
for  a  violation  of  any  ordinance  relative  thereto. 

Tenth. — -To  prevent  and  regulate  the  running  at  large  of  dogs; 
to  tax  and  to  authorize  the  destruction  of  the  same  when  at  large 
contrary  to  the  ordinances.  , 

Eleventh. — To  make  regulations  to  prevent  the  introduction  or 
spread  of  contagious  diseases  in  the  town. 

Twelfth. — To  control  and  regulate  the  streets,  alleys  and  other 
public  places,  and  abate  any  obstructions,  encroachments  or  nui- 
sances thereon. 

Thirteenth. — To  establish  and  regulate  public  pounds,  appoint 
pound-masters,  and  prescribe  their  duties  and  fees,  and  to  define  and 
punish  vagrancy. 


12  CHARTER    OF    THK 

Fourteenth,  —  To  direct  and  regulate  the  planting  and  preserving 
of  ornamental  trees  in  the  streets  and  public  grounds  in  said  town. 

Fifteenth.  —  To  define  and  abate  all  nuisances  which  are  or  may 
be  injurious  to  the  public  health,  in  any  manner  they  may  deem 
expedient. 

Sixteenth.  —  To  regulate,  restrain,  prohibit  or  license  bre\veries, 
tanneries,  packing-houses,  distilleries,  slaughter  houses,  butcher 
shops,  stock  yards,  or  the  establishments  for  the  steaming  or  rend- 
ering of  lard,  tallow,  offal,  manure,  or  such  other  substances  as  can 
or  may  be  rendered,  boiled  or  steamed,  and  all  establishments  or 
places  where  any  nauseous,  offensive,  unwholesome  or  immoral 
business  may  be  carried  on. 

Seventeenth.  —  To  restrain  and  prohibit  the  deposit  of  any  night 
soil,  dead  animals,  manure,  or  other  filthy,  offensive  or  nauseous 
substances,  upon  any  lot,  street,  alley,  highway  or  other  place  in 
said  town. 

.Eighteenth.  —  To  restrain  and  prohibit  the  cutting,  destroying, 
marring  or  defacing  of  any  shade  tree,  or  ornamental  shrub  or 
other  tree  upon  any  street,  highway,  or  other  public  place,  and  to 
restrain  and  prohibit  the  defacing  of  any  depot  or  other  building, 
and  to  prevent  the  writing  of  bawdy  or  indecent  words,  or  the  mak- 
ing of  obscene  pictures  on  such  depots  or  other  buildings. 

Nineteenth.  —  To  regulate,  restrain  and  prohibit  shooting  or  dis- 
charge of  fire  arms  in  said  town. 


To  punish  all  persons  who  shall  resist  any  officer  of 
said  town,  or  policeman,  or  other  officer  or  agent  appointed  by  said 
board,  in  the  discharge  of  his  official  duties. 

Twenty-first.  —  To  prevent  public  dog  fights,  bull  fights,  prize- 
fights, or  any  public  or  private  fighting,  and  to  restrain  loud  and 
unbecoming,  profane  or  indecent  language  or  disorderly  conduct  in 
said  toxvn. 


\-second.  —  To  require  railroad  companies  to  construct  and 
keep  in  repair  suitable  crossings  at  the  intersection  of  their  roads 
with  streets  and  alleys,  when  the  board  of  trustees  shall  deem  it 
necessary,  and  require  them  to  construct,  and  keep  open  and  in 
repair,  ditches,  drains,  sewers  and  culverts,  on  the  sides  of  their  rail- 
road tracks,  so  that  no  water  can  stand  on  their  grounds  or  right  of 
way,  and  to  regulate  the  speed  of  locomotive  engines  in  said  town, 
or  any  part  thereof,  and  to  regulate,  restrain  and  prohibit  the  stand- 
ing of  cars  or  locomotives  on  or  across  any  highway  or  alley. 


TOWN    OF    LAKE.  13 

Twenty-third. — To  prohibit  any  indecent  exhibition  of  horses  and 
other  animals. 

Twenty-fourth. — To  appoint  watchmen  and  policemen,  and  pre- 
scribe their  powers  and  duties. 

Twenty-fifth. — To  make,  publish,  ordain,  amend  and  repeal  all 
such  ordinances,  orders,  by-laws,  police  and  health  regulations  for 
the  good  government  of  the  town,  and  the  public  health,  as  may  be 
deemed  necessary  and  expedient  by  said  board  to  carry  into  effect 
the  powers  vested  in  said  board  or  any  officer  of  said  town,  or  officer 
or  agent  of  said  board,  and  to  enforce  observance  of  the  same,  by 
fine  or  imprisonment,  in  the  discretion  of  the  magistrate  or  court 
before  which  conviction  may  be  had:  Provided,  such  fine  shall  not 
exceed  one  hundred  dollars,  nor  such  imprisonment  thirty  days. 
Every  ordinance,  regulation  or  by-law  imposing  a  penalty,  fine,  im- 
prisonment or  forfeiture,  for  a  violation  of  its  provisions,  shall,  after 
the  passage  thereof,  be  posted  in  at  least  three  of  the  most  public 
places  in  said  town. 

jurisdiction  of  the  justice  of  peace.]  §  12.  Any  justice  of 
the  peace  in  said  town  shall  have  jurisdiction  of  any  offense  com- 
mitted under  this  act  or  the  rules,  by-laws  or  ordinances  of  said 
board.  A  change  of  venue  may  be  taken,  as  in  other  cases:  'Pro— 
z'ided,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  justice  immediately  to  transmit  all 
the  papers  and  documents  belonging  to  the  suit  to  the  nearest  just- 
ice of  the  peace  in  said  town.  All  fines  and  penalties  when  col- 
lected, shall  be  paid  to  the  treasurer  of  said  town. 

Duties  of  the  justice  of  -peace  and  policemen.]  §  13.  It  shall 
be  the  duty  of  any  justice  of  the  peace  in  said  town,  and  he  is  hereby 
authorized  and  empowered  on  view,  or  on  complaint  being  made  to 
him,  on  oath,  of  the  violation  of  any  ordinance,  by-law  or  police 
regulation  of  said  town,  to  issue  his  warrant,  directed  to  any  consta- 
ble, policeman  or  authorized  person,  to  apprehend  the  offender  or 
offenders,  and  bring  him  or  them  before  him  forthwith,  and  after 
hearing  the  evidence,  if  it  shall  appear  that  the  accused  has  been 
guilty  of  any  violation  of  any  such  ordinance,  by-law  or  regulation, 
to  impose  such  fine  or  imprisonment  as  is  provided  in  such  ordinance, 
by-law  or  regulation.  All  officers  of  said  town,  and  such  policeman  as 
said  board  may  appoint,  shall  have  power  to  arrest  or  cause  to  be  ar- 
rested, with  or  without  process,  all  persons  who  shall  break  or  be  found 
in  the  act  of  breaking  the  peace,  or  who  shall  be  found  by  them  in  the 
act  of  violating  any  of  the  regulations,  ordinances  or  by-laws  of  said 
board,  and  if  necessary,  to  detain  such  person  in  custody  over  night, 
in  some  place  to  be  provided  by  said  board;  and  shall  have  and  ex- 


14  CHARTER    OF    THE 

ercise  such  other  powers,  as  conservators  of  the  peace,  as  the  board 
may  prescribe,  not  extending  to  the  arrest  or  imprisonment  of 
offenders,  unless  taken  in  the  act  of  breaking  the  peace  or  violating 
some  ordinance  of  said  board.  And  the  said  board  may  appoint  one 
or  more  policemen  and  prescribe  their  duties;  and  the  said  police- 
men or  any  constable  in  said  town,  may  serve  any  process  or  make 
any  arrest  authorized  by  this  act,  or  the  regulations,  by-laws  or 
ordinances  of  said  board. 

Punishment  of  offenders.^  §  14.  The  board  of  trustees  are 
hereby  authorized  to  provide  some  safe  place  for  the  imprisonment 
of  such  persons  as  shall  have  been  convicted  and  sentenced  to  im- 
prisonment, and  appoint  a  keeper  thereof.  All  such  person  or  per- 
sons, so  convicted,  shall  be  confined  therein  for  the  period  fixed  by 
such  sentence,  unless  sooner  discharged.  And  every  person  or  per- 
sons who  shall  have  been  fined  in  any  sum  and  who  shall  neglect  or 
refuse  to  pay  the  same,  shall  stand  committed,  and  be  imprisoned  as 
aforesaid,  until  such  fine  is  paid:  Provided,  that  for  each  and  every 
day  such  person  or  persons  shall  be  so  imprisoned,  the  sum  of  two 
dollars  shall  be  remitted  from  the  fine.  Any  person  escaping  from 
such  imprisonment  may  be  arrested  by  any  policeman,  constable  or 
other  officer,  without  process,  and  returned  to  prison ;  and  the  time 
during  which  such  person  was  absent  shall  not  be  taken  as  a  part  of 
the  time  for  which  he  was  sentenced. 

Streets,  sidewalks  and  sewer s.\  §  15.  The  said  board  of  trustees 
shall  have  power,  from  time  to  time: 

First.- — To  cause  any  street,  alley  or  highway  to  be  opened, 
altered,  widened,  extended,  laid  out,  vacated,  bridged,  graded,  mac- 
adamized, paved,  planked,  clayed,  graveled,  or  to  be  otherwise  im- 
proved, and  to  keep  the  same  in  repair. 

Second. — To  cause  sidewalks,  crosswalks,  main  drains  and  sewers 
private  drains  and  aqueducts,  to  be  constructed  and  laid,  relaid, 
cleansed  and  repaired,  and  to  connect  them,  or  any  of  them,  with 
any  drain  or  sewer  running  through  any  other  town,  on  paying  a 
reasonable  compensation  therefor,  and  to  regulate  the  same:  Pro- 
vided, that  no  improvement,  to  be  paid  for  by  special  assessment, 
shall  be  ordered  by  the  board,  unless  the  same  shall  first  be 
petitioned  for,  in  writing,  by  one  half,  numerically,  of  the  resident 
owners  of  the  real  estate  abutting  on  the  line  of  the  proposed  im- 
provement, or,  in  want  of  such  petition,  unless  such  improvement 
shall  be  ordered  by  said  board  by  a  two-thirds  vote  in  favor  thereof 
— the  vote  to  be  by  yeas  and  nays,  and  to  be  entered  on  record. 


TOWN    OF    LAKE.  15 

Special  assessments  for  improvements^  §  16.  The  expense 
of  any  improvement  mentioned  in  the  foregoing  section  shall  be 
defrayed,  except  as  otherwise  provided  by  this  act,  by  a  special 
assessment  upon  the  real  estate  benefited  thereby,  to  be  levied  in 
the  manner  hereinafter  provided. 

(Sections  17  to  34,  inclusive,  are  omitted,  said  sections  relating  to  the  making  of 
local  improvements  and  the  opening  of  streets  by  special  assessment,  have  been 
superseded  by  the  adoption  of  article  IX  of  the  general  incorporation  law.) 

Combustible  materials^  §  35.  The  board  of  trustees  of  said 
town  shall  have  the  power,  within  the  jurisdiction  of  said  town,  by 
ordinance,  to  direct  and  prohibit  the  location  and  management  of 
houses  for  the  storing  of  gunpowder  or  other  combustible  and 
dangerous  materials  within  said  town,  and  to  regulate  the  conveying 
and  keeping  of  gunpowder  and  other  combustible  and  dangerous 
materials  within  said  town. 

Present  officers  to  continue^  §  36.  The  present  officers  and 
trustees  of  said  town  shall  continue  in  office  and  shall  continue  to 
exercise  the  duties  of  their  office,  respectively,  during  the  term  for 
which  they  were  respectively  elected:  Provided,  that  the  two 
trustees  thereof  shall  so  continue  until  the  election,  as  provided  in 
this  act,  on  the  second  Tuesday  of  April,  in  the  year  eighteen 
hundred  and  seventy;  and  such  officers  shall  exercise  the  powers 
and  perform  the  duties  in  the  same  manner  as  before  the  passage  of 
this  act,  except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this  act;  and  all  acts  and 
things  done  by  the  present  town  officers  and  board  of  trustees,  which 
were  lawful  for  them  to  do,  shall  continue  in  full  force  and  effect, 
except  as  otherwise  herein  provided. 

Time  and  -place  of  election, ,]  §  37.  An  election  shall  be  held  in 
said  town,  on  the  second  Tuesday  of  April,  1870,  and  on  the  second 
Tuesday  of  April  in  each  year  thereafter,  for  the  election  of  trus- 
tees and  town  officers,  except  justices  of  the  peace  and  constables. 

(Changed  by  general  law  to  first  Tuesday  of  April.) 

Organization  to  continue  as  at  present^  §  38.  From  and  after 
the  passage  of  this  act  and  until  the  first  election,  as  hereinafter 
provided,  the  board  of  trustees  of  said  town  shall  continue  to  be 
organized  as  at  present,  and  all  officers  who  have  given  bonds  here- 
tofore shall  be  liable  on  their  respective  bonds,  as  now  provided  by 
law;  and  such  officers  shall  be  obliged  to  give  additional  bonds,  as 
herein  provided,  for  the  time  such  officers  respectively  hold  over. 
All  acts  and  things  done  by  the  present  town  officers  and  board  of 
trustees,  which  were  lawful  for  them  to  do,  shall  continue  in  full 
force  and  effect,  except  as  otherwise  herein  provided. 


1 6  CHARTER  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE. 

Election  of  officers^  §  39.  At  the  election  on  the  second  Tues- 
day of  April,  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy,  as  herein  provided, 
there  shall  be  elected,  by  the  legal  voters  of  said  town,  two  trustees, 
who,  together  with  the  supervisor,  assessor  and  collector,  shall  there- 
after constitute  the  said  board.  One  of  said  trustees  shall  hold  his 
office  for  two  years,  and  one  shall  hold  his  office  for  one  year,  and 
they  shall  determine  by  lot,  in  the  presence  of  the  board  of  trustees, 
which  one  shall  serve  for  one  year  and  which  one  for  two  years; 
and  there  shall  be  elected  annually  thereafter,  one  trustee,  who  shall 
hold  his  office  for  two  years. 

Plats.\  §  40.  No  plat  hereafter  made  of  any  real  estate  in  said 
Town  of  Lake  shall  be  valid,  unless  the  same  shall  be  approved 
by  the  board  of  trustees,  nor  shall  any  such  plat  be  entitled  to  be 
recorded  in  the  recorder's  office  of  Cook  county,  without  such 
approval. 

Repeal  of  former  actJ\  §  4 1 .  The  act  entitled :  "  An  Act  to 
incorporate  The  Town  of  Lake,  in  county  of  Cook,  and  state  of  Illi- 
nois," approved  February  28,  1867,  except  so  far  as  the  same  defines 
the  limits  of  said  town,  is  hereby  repealed :  Provided,  however,  that 
the  said  town  shall  have  the  right  to  continue  and  complete  all  pro- 
ceedings, in  respect  of  special  assessments  or  public  improvements, 
which  have  been  commenced  under  any  former  law  or  ordinance, 
and  shall  have  and  enjoy  all  the  rights,  accrued  or  to  accrue  there- 
under, the  same  as  if  said  act  and  the  provisions  thereof  remained  in 
full  force  and  effect. 

When  in  force, .]     §  42.     This  act  shall  be  a  public  act,  and  take 
effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 


STATUTES 

RELATING  TO   MUNICIPAL  CORPORATIONS. 


ARTICLE  IX 

OF  AN  ACT  to  provide  for  the  incorporation  of  cities  and  villages,  approved  April 
10,  1872;  in  force,  July  1,  1872;  adopted  by  the  board  of  trustees  of  The  Town  of 
Lake,  by  ordinance  passed  July  8,  1872. 

SPECIAL    ASSESSMENTS    FOR    LOCAL    IMPROVEMENTS. 

Powers  conferred.]  §  i.  That  the  corporate  authorities  of 
cities  and  villages  are  hereby  vested  with  power  to  make  local  im- 
provement by  special  assessment,  or  by  special  taxation,  or  both,  of 
contiguous  property,  or  general  taxation,  or  otherwise,  as  they  shall 
by  ordinance  prescribe. 

Qrdinance  for  improvement. ,J  ^  2.  When  any  such  city  or  vil- 
lage shall,  by  ordinance,  provide  for  the  making  of  any  local  im- 
provement, it  shall,  by  the  same  ordinance,  prescribe  whether  the 
same  shall  be  made  by  special  assessment  or  by  special  taxation  of 
contiguous  property,  or  general  taxation,  or  both. 

When  property  is  taken,  etc]  §  3.  Should  said  ordinance  pro- 
vide for  improvements  which  require  the  taking  or  damaging  of 
property,  the  proceeding  for  making  just  compensation  therefor  shall 
be  as  follows: 

Petition.  |  i^  4.  Whenever  any  such  ordinance  shall  be  passed 
by  the  legislative  authority  of  any  such  city  or  village,  for  the  mak- 
ing of  any  improvement  mentioned  in  the  first  section  of  this  act,  or 
any  other  local  improvement  that  such  city  or  village  is  authorized 
to  make,  the  making  of  which  will  require  that  private  property  be 
taken  or  damaged  for  public  use,  such  city  or  village  shall  file  a 

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IS  STATUTES    RELATING    TO 

petition  in  some  court  of  record  of  the  county  in  which  such  city  is 
situated,  in  the  name  of  the  city,  praying  that  "  the  just  compensa- 
tion to  be  made  for  private  property  to  be  taken  or  damaged  for 
the  improvement  or  purpose  specified  in  such  ordinance  shall  be 
ascertained  by  a  jury." 

Form  of  petition]  §  5.  Such  petition  shall  contain  a  copy  of 
the  said  ordinance,  certified  by  the  clerk,  under  the  corporate  seal; 
a  reasonably  accurate  description  of  the  lots,  parcels  of  land  and 
property  which  will  be  taken  or  damaged,  and  the  names  of  the 
owners  and  occupants  thereof,  so  far  as  known  to  the  board  or 
officer  filing  the  petition,  and  where  any  known  owners  are  non- 
residents of  the  state,  stating  the  fact  of  such  non-residence. 

Summons — publication — notice.]  §  6.  Upon  the  filing  of  the 
petition  aforesaid,  a  summons,  which  may  be  made  returnable  upon 
any  day  in  term  time,  shall  be  issued  and  served  upon  the  persons 
made  parties  defendant,  as  in  cases  in  chancery.  And  in  case  any 
of  them  are  unknown,  or  reside  out  of  this  state,  the  clerk  of  the 
court,  upon  an  affidavit  being  filed  showing  such  fact,  shall  cause 
publication  to  be  made  in  some  newspaper  printed  in  his  county,  or, 
if  there  be  no  newspaper  published  in  his  county,  then  in  some 
newspaper  published  in  this  state,  containing  notice  of  the  pendency 
of  such  proceeding,  the  parties  thereto,  the  title  of  the  court,  and 
the  time  and  place  of  the  return  of  the  summons,  in  the  case,  and 
the  nature  of  said  proceeding;  such  publication  to  be  made  for  four 
weeks  consecutively,  at  least  once  in  each  week,  the  first  of  which 
shall  be  at  least  thirty  days  before  the  return  day  of  such  summons. 
Notices  so  given  by  publication  shall  be  sufficient  to  authorize  the 
court  to  hear  and  determine  the  suit,  as  though  all  parties  had  been 
sued  by  their  proper  names  and  had  been  personally  served. 

Hearing— jury]  §  7.  Upon  the  return  of  said  summons,  or  as 
soon  thereafter  as  the  business  of  the  court  will  permit,  the  said 
court  shall  proceed  to  the  hearing  of  such  petition,  and  shall  impanel 
a  jury  to  ascertain  the  just  compensation  to  be  paid  to  all  of  such 
owners  and  occupants  aforesaid;  but  if  an}- defendant  or  party  in 
interest  shall  demand,  or  the  court  shall  deem  it  proper,  separate 
juries  may  be  impaneled  as  to  the  compensation  or  damages  to  be 
paid  to  any  one  or  more  of  such  defendants  or  parties  in  interest. 

Jury  to  ascertain  compensation — admitting  other  parties^]  §  8. 
Such  jury  shall  also  ascertain  the  just  compensation  to  be  paid  to  any 
person  claiming  an  interest  in  any  lot,  parcel  of  land  or  property  which 
may  be  taken  or  damaged  by  such  improvement,  whether  or  not 
such  person's  name,  or  such  lot,  parcel  of  land,  or  other  property,  is 


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mentioned  or  described  in  such  petition:  Provided,  such  person 
shall  first  be  admitted  as  a  party  defendant  to  said  suit  by  such  court, 
and  shall  file  a  statement  of  his  interest  in  and  description  of  the  lot, 
parcel  of  land,  or  other  property  in  respect  to  which  he  claims  com- 
pensation. 

Viewing  premises — ownership,  etc.~\  §  9.  The  court^may,  upon 
the  motion  of  such  city  or  village,  or  of  any  person  claiming  any  such 
compensation,  direct  that  said  jury  (under  the  charge  of  an  officer  of 
the  court)  shall  view  the  premises  which  it  is  claimed  by  any  party  to 
said  proceeding  will  be  taken  or  damaged  by  said  improvement,  and 
in  any  case,  where  there  is  no  satisfactory  evidence  given  to  the  jury 
as  to  the  ownership  of,  or  as  to  the  extent  of  the  interest  of  any  de- 
fendant in  the  property  to  be  taken  or  damaged,  the  jury  may  return 
their  verdict  as  to  the  compensation  or  damage  to  be  paid  for  the 
property  or  part  of  property  to  be  taken  or  damaged,  and  for  the 
entire  interests  therein. 

Judgment — new  -parties— -further  -proceedings^  §  10.  Upon  the 
return  of  such  verdict,  the  court  shall  order  the  same  to  be  recorded, 
and  shall  enter  such  judgment  or  decree  thereon  as  the  nature  of  the 
case  may  require.  The  court  shall  continue  or  adjourn  the  cause, 
from  time  to  time,  as  to  all  occupants  and  owners  named  in  such 
petition  who  shall  not  have  been  served  with  process,  or  brought  in 
by  publication,  and  shall  order  a  new  summons  to  issue  and  new 
publication  to  be  made;  and  upon  such  occupants  or  owners  being 
brought  into  court,  shall  impanel  a  jury  to  ascertain  the  compensa- 
tion so  to  be  paid  to  such  defendant  or  defendants,  for  private  prop- 
er tv  taken  or  damaged;  and  like  proceedings  shall  be  had  for  such 
purpose  as  hereinbefore  provided  for  the  ascertaining  of  compensa- 
tion to  other  owners. 

Powers  of  court. .]  §  n.  The  court  shall  have  power,  at  any 
time,  upon  proof  that  any  such  owner  or  owners  named  in  such  peti- 
tion, who  has  not  been  served  with  process,  has  ceased  to  be  such 
owner  or  owners  since  the  filing  of  such  petition,  to  impanel  a  jury 
and  ascertain  the  just  compensation  to  be  made  for  the  property  (or 
the  damage  thereto)  which  had  been  owned  by  the  person  or  per- 
sons so  ceasing  to  own  the  same;  and  the  court  may,  upon  any  find- 
ing or  findings  of  any  jury  or  juries,  or  at  any  time  during  the 
course  of  such  proceedings,  enter  such  order,  rule,  judgment  or  de- 
cree as  the  nature  of  the  case  may  require. 

Ownership—  further  -powers  of  court ^\     §   12.     No  delay  in  mak- 
ing an  assessment  of  compensation  shall  be  occasioned  by  any  doubt 
or  contest  which  may  arise  as  to  the  ownership  of  the   property,  or 
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2O  STATUTES    RELATING    TO 

any  part  thereof,  or  as  to  the  interests  of  the  respective  owners  or 
claimants,  but  in  such  case  the  court  may  impanel  a  jury  and  as- 
certain the  entire  compensation  or  damage  that  should  be  paid  for 
the  property,  or  part  of  property,  and  the  entire  interests  of  all  par- 
ties therein,  and  may  require  adverse  claimants  to  interplead  so  as 
to  fully  determine  their  rights  and  interests  in  the  compensation  so 
ascertained.  And  the  court  may  make  such  order  as  may  be  neces- 
sary in  regard  to  the  deposit  or  payment  of  such  compensation. 

Persons  under  disability^  §  13.  When  it  shall  appear,  from 
said  petition  or  otherwise,  at  any  time  during  the  proceedings  upon 
such  petition,  that  any  infant,  or  insane  or  distracted  person,  is  inter- 
ested in  any  property  that  is  to  be  taken  or  damaged,  the  court  shall 
appoint  a  guardian,  ad  litem,  for  such  infant  or  insane  or  distracted 
person,  to  appear  and  defend  for  him,  her  or  them;  and  the  court  shall 
make  such  order  or  decree  as  it  shall  deem  proper  to  protect  and 
secure  the  interests  of  such  infant,  or  insane  or  distracted  person,  in 
such  property,  or  the  compensation  which  shall  be  awarded  therefor. 


effect  —  ap^peal^  etc.^  §  14.  Any  final  judgment  or 
judgments,  rendered  by  said  court,  upon  any  rinding  or  findings  of 
any  jury  or  juries,  shall  be  a  lawful  and  sufficient  condemnation  of  the 
land  or  property  to  be  taken  upon  the  payment  of  the  amount 
of  such  rinding  as  hereinafter  provided.  It  shall  be  final  and  conclu- 
sive as  to  the  damages  caused  by  such  improvement,  unless  such  judg- 
ment or  judgments  shall  be  appealed  from;  but  no  appeal  or  writ  of 
error  upon  the  same  shall  delay  proceedings  under  said  ordinance,  if 
such  city  or  village  shall  deposit,  as  directed  by  the  court,  the  amount 
of  the  judgment  and  costs,  and  shall  file  a  bond  in  the  court  in  which 
such  judgment  was  rendered,  in  a  sum  to  be  fixed  and  with  security 
to  be  approved  by  the  judge  of  said  court,  which  shall  secure  the 
payment  of  any  future  compensation  which  may  at  any  time  be  finally 
awarded  to  such  party  so  appealing  or  suing  out  such  writ  of  error, 
and  his  or  her  costs. 

Order  for  -possession?^  §  15.  The  court,  upon  proof  that  said 
just  compensation  so  found  by  the  jury  has  been  paid  to  the  person 
entitled  thereto,  or  has  been  deposited  as  directed  by  the  court  (and 
bond  given,  in  case  of  any  appeal  or  writ  of  error),  shall  enter  an 
order  that  the  city  or  village  shall  have  the  right,  at  any  time  there- 
after, to  take  possession  of  or  damage  the  property,  in  respect  to 
which  such  compensation  shall  have  been  so  paid  or  deposited,  as 
aforesaid. 

When  improvement  made  by  general  tax.]  §  16.  When  the 
ordinance  under  which  said  improvement  is  ordered  to  be  made  shall 


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provide  that  such  improvement  shall  be  made  by  general  taxation, 
the  cost  of  such  improvement  shall  be  added  to  the  general  appro- 
priation bill  of  such  city  or  village,  and  shall  be  levied  and  collected 
with  and  as  a  part  of  the  general  taxes  of  such  city  or  village. 

Special  taxation]  §  17.  When  said  ordinance,  under  which 
said  local  improvement  shall  be  ordered  shall  provide  that  such  im- 
provement shall  be  made  by  special  taxation  of  contiguous  property, 
the  same  shall  be  levied,  assessed  and  collected  in  the  way  provided 
in  the  sections  of  this  act  providing  for  the  mode  of  making,  levying, 
assessing  and  collecting  special  assesments. 

SPECIAL  ASSESSMENT. 

How  made.]  §  18.  When  the  ordinance  under  which  said 
local  improvement  is  ordered  to  be  made  shall  provide  that  such 
improvement  shall  be  wholly  or  in  part  made  by  special  assessment, 
the  proceedings  for  the  making  such  special  assessment  shall  be  in 
accordance  with  the  sections  of  this  act  [article]  from  18  to  51, 
inclusive. 

Ordinance  for — sidewalks — owner '5  rights]  ^  19.  Whenever 
such  local  improvements  are  made  wholly  or  in  part  by  special 
assessment,  the  said  council  in  cities,  or  board  of  trustees  in  vil- 
lages, shall  pass  an  ordinance  to  that  effect,  specifying  therein  the 
nature,  character,  locality  and  description  of  such  improvement: 
Provided,  that  whenever  any  such  ordinance  shall  provide  only  for 
the  building  or  renewing  of  any  sidewalk,  the  owner  of  any  lot  or 
piece  of  land  fronting  on  such  sidewalk  shall  be  allowed  fifteen 
davs  after  the  time  at  which  such  ordinance  shall  take  effect  in 

*/ 

which  to  build  or  renew  such  sidewalk  opposite  his  land,  and  there- 
by relieve  the  same  from  assessment:  Provided,  that  the  work  so 
to  be  done  shall  in  all  respects  conform  to  the  requirements  of  such 
ordinance. 

Estimate  oj  cost.]  §  20.  The  city  council  or  board  of  trus- 
tees shall  appoint  three  of  its  members,  or  any  other  three  com- 
petent persons,  who  shall  make  an  estimate  of  the  cost  of  the 
improvement  contemplated  by  such  ordinance^  including  labor, 
materials,  and  all  other  expenses  attending  the  same,  and  the  cost  of 
making  and  levying  the  assessment,  and  shall  report  the  same  in 
writing  to  said  council  or  board  of  trustees. 

Order  for  proceedings  in  court]  §  21.  On  such  report  being 
made,  and  approved  by  the  council  or  board  of  trustees,  as  the 
case  may  be,  it  may  order  a  petition  to  be  filed  by  such  officer  as  it 


22  STATUTES    RELATING    TO 

shall  direct,  in  the  county  court  of  its  county,  for  proceedings 
to  assess  the  cost  of  such  improvement  in  the  manner  provided  in 
this  act. 

Petition  to  court .]  §  22.  The  petition  shall  be  in  the  name  of 
the  corporation,  and  shall  recite  the  ordinance  for  the  proposed 
improvement  and  the  report  of  such  commission,  and  shall  pray 
that  the  cost  of  such  improvement  may  be  assessed  in  the  manner 
prescribed  by  law. 

Appointment  of  commissioners  —  oath^\  §  23.  Upon  the  filing 
of  such  petition  the  court  shall  appoint  three  competent  persons  as 
commissioners,  who  shall  take  and  subscribe  an  oath,  in  substance 
as  follows,  to  wit: 

STATE  OF  ILLINOIS,  ) 
County.  ) 

We,  the  undersigned,  commissioners,  appointed  by  the  county  court  of 

county,  to  assess  the  cost  of (here  state    in  general  terms  the  improvement), 

do  solemnly  swear  (or  affirm,  as  the  case  may  be,)  that  we  will  a  true  and  impartial 
assessment  make  of  the  cost  of  said  improvement  upon  the  city  (or  village)  of 

and  the  property  benefited  by  such  improvement,  to  the  best  of  our  ability, 

and  according  to  law. 

Duty  of  commissioners^  §  24.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  such 
commissioners  to  examine  the  locality  where  the  improvement  is 
proposed  to  be  made,  and  the  lots,  blocks,  tracts,  and  parcels  of  land 
that  will  be  specially  benefited  thereby,  and  to  estimate  what 
proportion  of  the  total  cost  of  such  improvement  will  be  of 
benefit  to  the  public,  and  what  proportion  thereof  will  be  of 
benefit  to  the  property  to  be  benefited,  and  apportion  the  same 
between  the  city  or  village  and  such  property,  so  that  each 
shall  bear  its  relative  equitable  proportion;  and  having  found 
said  amounts,  to  apportion  and  assess  the  amount  so  found  to  be 
of  benefit  to  the  property  upon  the  several  lots,  blocks,  tracts 
and  parcels  of  land  in  the  proportion  in  which  they  will  be  sever- 
ally benefited  by  such  improvement:  Provided,  that  no  lot,  block, 
tract  or  parcel  of  land  shall  be  assessed  a  greater  amount  than 
it  will  be  actually  benefited:  And  -provided,  further,  that  it  shall 
not  be  necessary  for  said  commissioners  to  examine  the  locality 
except  where  the  ordinance  provides  for  the  opening,  widening  or 
improvement  of  streets  and  alleys. 

(Section  25  repealed  by  act  approved  April  25,  1873.) 

Assessment  roll — return^  §  26.  They  shall  also  make,  or  cause 
to  be  made,  an  assessment  roll,  in  which  shall  appear  the  names  of 
the  owners,  so  far  as  known,  a  description  of  each  lot,  block,  tract 


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or  parcel  of  land,  and  the  amount  assessed  as  special  benefits  thereto, 
and  in  which  they  shall  set  down  as  against  the  city  or  village  the 
amount  they  shall  have  found  as  public  benefit,  and  certify  such 
assessment  roll  to  the  court  by  which  they  were  appointed,  at  least 
ten  days  before  the  first  day  of  the  term  at  which  a  final  hearing 
thereon  shall  be  had. 

Notice  by  mail,  posting  and  •publication.}  §27.  It  shall  also  be 
the  duty  of  such  commissioners  to  give  notice  of  such  assessment, 
and  of  the  term  of  court  at  which  a  final  hearing  thereon  will  be  had, 
in  the  following  manner: 

First. — They  shall  send  by  mail  to  each  owner  of  premises  assessed, 
whose  name  and  place  of  residence  is  known  to  them,  a  notice  sub- 
stantially in  the  following  form: 

Mr Your  (here  give  a  short  description  of  the  premises)  is  assessed 

$ for  public  improvement.     The  assessment  roll  will  be  returned  to  the  .... 

term  of  the  county  court  of county. 


(Here  give  date.) 

Commissioners. 

Second. — They  shall  cause  at  least  ten  days'  notice  to  be  given,  by 
posting  notices  in  at  least  four  public  places  in  such  city  or  village, 
two  of  which  shall  be  in  the  neighborhood  of  such  proposed  improve- 
ment; and  when  a  daily  newspaper  is  published  in  such  city  or  vil- 
lage, by  publishing  the  same  at  least  five  successive  days  in  such 
daily  newspaper,  or  if  no  daily  newspaper  is  published  in  such  city  or 
village,  and  a  weekly  newspaper  is  published  therein,  then  at  least 
once  in  each  week,  for  two  successive  weeks,  in  such  weekly  news- 
paper, or  if  no  daily  or  weekly  newspaper  is  published  in  such  city 
or  village,  then  in  a  newspaper  published  in  the  county  in  which 
such  city  or  village  is  situated.  The  notice  may  be  substantially  as 
follows: 

SPECIAL  ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  to  all  persons  interested,  that  the  city  council  (or  board  of 

trustees,  as  the  case  may  be,)  of having  ordered   that  (here  insert  the 

description  and  nature  of  improvements  substantially  as  in  ordinance,)  have  applied 
to  the  county  court  of county  for  an  assessment  of  the  cost  of  said  im- 
provements, according  to  benefits;  and  an  assessment  thereof  having  been  made  and 

returned  to  said  court,  the  final  hearing  thereon  will  be   had  at  the term 

of  said  court,  commencing  on  the day  of ,  A.  D.  18.  .  All  per- 
sons desiring  may  then  and  there  appear  and  make  their  defense. 


(Here  give  date.)  

Commissioners. 


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Proof  of  notice!]  §  28.  On  or  before  the  final  hearing,  the 
affidavit  of  one  or  more  of  the  commissioners  shall  be  filed  in  said 
court,  stating  that  they  have  sent,  or  caused  to  be  sent,  by  mail,  to 
the  owners  whose  premises  have  been  assessed,  and  whose  name 
and  place  of  business  are  known  to  them,  the  notice  hereinbefore 
required  to  be  sent  by  mail  to  owners  of  premises  assessed.  They 
shall  also  cause  to  be  filed  the  affidavit  of  the  person  who  shall  have 
posted  the  notices  required  by  this  act  to  be  posted,  setting  forth 
when  and  in  what  manner  the  same  were  posted.  Such  affidavits 
shall  be  received  as  prima  facie  evidence  of  a  compliance  with  this 
act  in  regard  to  giving  such  notices.  They  shall  also  file  a  certifi- 
cate of  publication  of  said  notice  in  like  manner  as  is  required  in 
other  cases  of  publication  of  notices. 

Continuance  -when  notice  is  not  in  time.]  §  29.  If  ten  days  shall 
not  have  elapsed  between  the  first  publication  or  the  putting  up  of 
such  notices  and  the  first  day  of  the  next  term  of  such  court,  the 
hearing  shall  be  continued  until  the  next  term  of  court. 

Objections — -judgment  by  default!]  §  30.  Any  person  interested 
in  any  real  estate  to  be  affected  by  such  assessment,  may  appear  and 
file  objections  to  such  report,  and  the  court  may  make  such  order 
in  regard  to  the  time  of  filing  such  objections  as  may  be  made  in 
cases  at  law  in  regard  to  the  time  of  filing  pleas.  As  to  all  lots, 
blocks,  tracts  and  parcels  of  land  to  the  assessment  of  which  objec- 
tions are  not  filed  within  the  time  ordered  by  the  court,  default  may 
be  entered,  and  the  assessment  confirmed  by  the  court. 

Hearing — -jury.]  §  31.  On  the  hearing,  the  report  of  the  com- 
missioners shall  be  competent  evidence,  and  either  party  may  intro- 
duce such  other  evidence  as  may  tend  to  establish  the  right  of 
the  matter.  The  hearing  shall  ,be  conducted  as  in  other  cases 
at  law,  and  if  it  shall  appear  that  the  premises  of  the  objector 
are  assessed  more  or  less  than  they  will  be  benefited,  or  more  or 
less  than  their  proportionate  share  of  the  cost  of  the  improve- 
ment, the  jury  shall  so  find,  and  also  find  the  amount  for  which  such 
premises  ought  to  be  assessed,  and  judgment  shall  be  rendered 
accordingly. 

Precedence.]  §  32.  The  hearing  in  all  cases  arising  under  this 
act  shall  have  precedence  over  all  other  cases  in  such  court,  except 
criminal  cases. 

Court  may  modify,  etc.,  the  assessment.]  §  33.  The  court  before 
which  any  such  proceeding  may  be  pending,  shall  have  authority, 
at  any  time  before  final  adjournment  [judgment],  to  modify,  alter, 
change,  annul  or  confirm  any  assessment  returned,  as  aforesaid,  or 


MUNICIPAL    CORPORATIONS.  25 

cause  any  such  assessment  to  be  recast  by  the  same  commissioners 
whenever  it  shall  be  necessary  for  the  attainment  of  justice,  or  may 
appoint  other  commissioners  in  the  place  of  all  or  any  of  the  com- 
missioners first  appointed,  for  the  purpose  of  making  such  assess- 
ment, or  modifying,  altering,  changing  or  recasting  the  same, 
and  may  take  all  such  proceedings  and  make  all  such  orders  as 
may  be  necessary  to  make  a  true  and  just  assessment  of  the 
cost  of  such  improvement,  according  to  the  principles  of  this 
act,  and  may  from  time  to  time,  as  may  be  necessary,  continue  the 
application  for  that  purpose  as  to  the  whole  or  any  part  of  the 
premises. 

Judgment  several — appeal,  etc. — //£«.]  §  34.  The  judgment  of 
the  court  shall  have  the  effect  of  a  several  judgment  as  to  each  tract 
or  parcel  of  land  assessed,  and  any  appeal  from  such  judgment  or 
writ  of  error  shall  not  invalidate  or  delay  the  judgment,  except  as 
to  the  property  concerning  which  the  appeal  or  writ  of  error  is 
taken.  Such  judgment  shall  be  a  lien  upon  the  property  assessed, 
from  the  date  thereof  until  payment  shall  be  made. 

Judgment  certified  to  city  clerk — -filing — warrant^  §  35-  The 
clerk  of  the  court  in  which  such  judgment  is  rendered  shall  certify  the 
assessment  roll  and  judgment  to  the  clerk  of  such  city  or  village,  or 
if  there  has  been  an  appeal  or  writ  of  error  taken  on  any  part  of 
such  judgment,  then  he  shall  certify  such  part  of  the  judgment  as 
is  not  included  in  such  appeal  or  writ  of  error.  The  clerk  of  the 
city  or  village  shall  file  such  certificate  in  his  office  and  issue  a  war- 
rant for  the  collection  of  such  assessment. 

Form  of  warrant^  §36.  The  warrant  in  all  cases  of  assess- 
ment under  this  act  shall  contain  a  copy  of  such  certificate  of  the 
judgment,  describing  the  lots,  blocks,  tracts  or  parcels  of  land  as- 
sessed, and  the  respective  amounts  assessed  on  each  lot,  block,  tract 
or  parcel  of  land,  and  shall  be  delivered  to  the  officer  authorized  to 
collect  such  special  assessments.  Such  warrant  shall  give  sufficient 
authority  to  collect  the  assessments  therein  specified. 

Collector's  notice—form  of.]  §  37.  The  collector  receiving  such 
warrant  shall  immediately  give  notice  thereof  by  publishing  such 
notice  in  one  or  more  newspapers  in  such  city  or  village,  if  such 
newspaper  is  there;  and  if  there  is  no  such  newspaper,  then  by  post- 
ing four  copies  thereof  in  public  places  along  the  line  of  the  pro- 
posed improvement.  Such  notice  may  be  substantially  in  the  fol- 
lowing form: 

SPECIAL  ASSESSMENT  NOTICE.       SPECIAL  WARRANT  NO.  . 

Public  notice  is  hereby  given  that  the  (here  insert  title  of  court)  has  rendered 
judgment  for  a  special  assessment  upon  property  benefited  by  the  following  im- 


26  STATUTES    RELATING    TO 

provement  (here  insert  the  character  and  location  of  the  improvement  in  general 
terms)  as  will  more  fully  appear  from  the  certified  copy  of  the  judgment  on  file  in 
the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  city  (or  village)  of. ;  that  a  warrant  for  the  col- 
lection of  such  assessments  is  in  the  hands  of  the  undersigned.  All  persons  inter- 
ested are  hereby  notified  to  call  and  pay  the  amounts  assessed,  at  the  collector's 
office,  (here  insert  location  of  office)  within  thirtv  davs  from  the  date  hereof. 

Dated  this day  of ,  A.  D.  18..." 

Collector. 

Manner  of  collecting- — entr\  of -payment^  §  38.  It  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  collector  into  whose  hands  the  warrant  shall  so  come,  as 
far  as  practicable,  to  call  upon  all  persons  resident  within  the  cor- 
poration whose  names  appear  on  the  assessment  roll,  or  the  occu- 
pants of  the  property  assessed,  and  personally,  or  by  written  or 
printed  notice  left  at  his  or  her  usual  place  of  abode,  inform  them 
of  such  assessment,  and  request  payment  of  the  same.  Any  such 
collector  omitting  so  to  do  shall  be  liable  to  a  penalty  of  $10  for 
every  such  omission,  but  the  validity  of  the  special  assessment,  or 
the  right  to  apply  for  and  obtain  judgment  for  any  such  special 
[assessment],  shall  not  be  affected  by  such  omission.  It  shall  be  the 
duty  of  such  collector  to  write  the  word  "  paid  "  opposite  each  tract 
or  lot  on  which  the  assessment  is  paid,  together  with  the  name  and 
post  office  address  of  the  person  making  the  payment,  and  date  of 
payment. 

Report  of  delinquent  list  to  count \  collector — evidence — defense,} 
§  39.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  collector  of  special  assessments, 
within  such  time  as  the  citv  council  or  board  of  trustees  mav  by  or- 
dinance provide,  to  make  a  report  in  writing— to  the  general  officer 
of  the  county  authorized,  or  to  be  designated  by  the  general  revenue 
law  of  this  State,  to  apply  for  judgment  and  sell  lands  for  taxes  due 
the  countv  and  state — of  all  the  lands,  town  lots  and  real  property 
on  which  he  shall  have  been  unable  to  collect  special  assessments, 
with  the  amount  of  special  assessments  due  and  unpaid  thereon,  to- 
gether with  his  warrant,  or  with  a  brief  description  of  the  nature  of 
the  warrant  or  warrants  received  by  him  authorizing  the  collection 
thereof;  which  report  shall  be  accompanied  with  the  oath  of  the  col- 
lector that  the  list  is  a  correct  return  and  report  of  the  lands,  town 
lots  and  real  property  on  which  the  special  assessments  levied  by 

authority  of  the  city  of (or  village   of ,   as  the 

case  may  be),  remain  due  and  unpaid ;  that  he  is  unable  to  collect 
the  same,  or  any  part  thereof,  and  that  he  has  given  the  notice  re- 
quired by  law  that  said  warrants  had  been  received  by  him  for  col- 
lection. Said  report,  when  so  made,  shall  be  prima  facie  evidence 
that  all  the  forms  and  requirements  of  the  law  in  relation  to  making 
said  return  have  been  complied  with,  and  that  the  special  assess- 
ments mentioned  in  said  report  are  due  and  unpaid.  And,  upon  the 
application  for  judgment  upon  such  assessments,  no  defense  or 


MUNICIPAL    CORPORATIONS.  27 

objection  shall  be  made  or  heard  which  might  have  been  interposed 
in  the  proceeding  for  the  making  of  such  assessment,  or  the  applica- 
tion for  the  confirmation  thereof. 

Application  for  judgment  -ic/iat  laws  govern.\  §  40.  When 
said  general  officer  shall  receive  the  report  provided  for  in  the  pre- 
ceding section,  he  shall  at  once  proceed  to  obtain  judgment  against 
said  lots,  parcels  of  land  and  property  for  said  special  assessments 
remaining  due  and  unpaid,  in  the  same  manner  as  is  or  may  be  by 
law  provided  for  obtaining  judgments  against  lands  for  taxes  due 
and  unpaid  the  county  and  state;  and  shall  in  the  same  manner  pro- 
ceed to  sell  the  same  for  the  said  special  assessments  remaining  due 
and  unpaid.  In  obtaining  said  judgment  and  making  said  sale,  the 
said  officer  shall  be  governed  by  the  general  revenue  laws  of  this 
state,  except  when  otherwise  provided  herein. 

Return  of  sales — redemption.^  §  41-  After  making  said  sales, 
the  list  of  lots,  parcels  of  land  and  property  sold  thereat  shall  be 
returned  to  the  office  of  the  county  clerk,  and  redemption  may  be 
made  as  provided  for  by  the  general  revenue  law  of  this  state. 

Penalty  ivhen  lands  paid  are  sold  for  tax,  £/£.]  §  42-  K  the  col- 
lector shall  receive  any  moneys  for  taxes  or  assessments,  giving 
a  receipt  therefor  for  any  land  or  parcel  of  land,  and  afterwards 
return  the  same  as  unpaid  to  the  state  officers  authorized  to  sell  lands 
for  taxes,  or  shall  receive  the  same  after  making  such  return,  and 
the  same  be  sold  for  tax  or  assessment  which  has  been  so  paid  and 
receipted  for  by  himself  or  his  clerks,  he  and  his  bond  shall  be  liable 
to  the  holder  of  the  certificate  given  to  the  purchasers  at  the  sale, 
for  double  the  amount  of  the  face  of  the  certificate,  to  be  demanded 
in  two  years  from  the  date  of  the  sale,  and  recovered  in  any  court 
having  jurisdiction  of  the  amount;  and  the  city  or  village  shall,  in 
no  ca.e,  be  liable  to  the  holder  of  such  certificate. 

Payi  g  over — compensation.^  ^  43.  The  collector' or  collectors, 
and  the  general  officer  aforesaid,  to  whom  the  said  warrant  shall  be 
returned,  sha  1  pay  over  to  the  city  or  village  treasurer  to  which  it 
shall  belong  all  moneys  collected  by  them,  respectively,  upon  or  by 
virtue  of  such  warrant,  or  upon  any  sale  for  taxes  or  otherwise,  at 
such  time  or  times,  and  in  such  manner  as  shall  be  prescribed  by 
ordinance,  and  shall  be  allowed  such  compensation  for  their  services 
in  the  collection  of  such  assessment  as  the  ordinances  of  the  city  or 
village  may  provide,  except  when  such  compensation  is  fixed  by 
general  law. 

General  revenue  laws  apply. ^  §44.  The  general  revenue  laws 
of  this  state,  in  reference  to  proceedings  to  recover  judgments  for 
delinquent  taxes,  the  sale  of  property  thereon,  the  execution  of  cer- 


28  STATUTES    RELATING    TO 

tificates  of  sale  and  deeds  thereon,  the  force  and  effect  of  such  sales 
and  deeds,  and  all  other  laws  in  relation  to  the  enforcement  and  col- 
lection of  taxes  and  redemption  from  tax  sales,  except  as  herein 
otherwise  provided,  shall  be  applicable  to  proceedings  to  collect 
such  special  assessment. 

City  or  tillage  may  buy  /Vz.]  §45.  Any  city  or  •  village  inter- 
ested in  the  collection  of  any  tax  or  special  assessment,  may  become 
a  purchaser  at  any  sale  of  real  or  personal  property  to  enforce  the 
collection  of  the  same,  and  may,  by  ordinance,  authorize  and  make 
it  the  duty  of  one  or  more  city  or  village  officers  to  attend  such  sales 
and  bid  thereat  in  behalf  of  the  corporation. 

When  assessment  set  aside — new  assessment^  §  46.  If  any  assess- 
ment shall  be  annulled  by  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees, 
or  set  aside  by  any  court,  a  new  assessment  may  be  made  and  re- 
turned, and  like  notice  given  and  proceedings  had,  as  herein  required 
in  relation  to  the  first;  and  all  parties  in  interest  shall  have  the  like 
rights,  and  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  and  court  shall 
perform  like  duties  and  have  like  power  in  relation  to  any  subsequent 
assessment,  as  are  hereby  given  in  relation  to  the  first  assessment. 

Supplemental  assessments.^  §  47.  If,  in  any  case,  the  first  assess- 
ment prove  insufficient,  a  second  may  be  made  in  the  same  manner, 
as  nearly  as  may  be,  and  so  on,  until  sufficient  moneys  shall  have 
been  realized  to  pay  for  such  public  improvement.  If  too  large  a 
sum  shall,  at  any  time,  be  raised,  the  excess  shall  be  refunded  ratably 
to  those  by  whom  it  was  paid. 

New  assessments  against  delinquents — lien — limitation^  §  48. 
If,  from  any  cause,  any  city  or  village  shall  fail  to  collect  the  whole 
or  anv  portion  of  any  special  assessment  which  may  be  levied,  which 
shall  not  be  canceled  and  set  aside  by  the  order  of  any  court,  for  any 
public  improvement  authorized  to  be  made  and  paid  for  by  special 
assessment,  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  may,  at  any  time 
within  five  years  after  the  confirmation  of  the  original  assessment 
direct  a  new  assessment  to  be  made  upon  the  delinquent  property 
for  the  amount  of  such  deficiency,  and  interest  thereon  from  the 
date  of  such  original  assessment— which  assessment  shall  be  made, 
as  near  as  may  be,  in  the  same  manner  as  is  herein  prescribed  for 
the  first  assessment.  In  all  cases  where  partial  payments  shall  have 
been  made  on  such  former  assessment,  they  shall  be  credited  or 
allowed  on  the  new  assessment  to  the  property  for  which  they  were 
made,  so  that  the  assessment  shall  be  equal  and  impartial  in  its  re- 
sults. If  such  new  assessment  prove  ineffectual,  either  in  whole  or 
in  part,  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  may,  at  any  time  within 
said  period  of  five  years,  order  a  third,  and  so  on,  to  be  levied  in  the 


MUNICIPAL    CORPORATIONS.  29 

same  manner  and  for  the  same  purpose;  and  it  shall  constitute  no 
legal  objection  to  such  assessment  that  the  property  may  have 
changed  hands,  or  been  encumbered,  subsequent  to  the  date  of  the 
original  assessment,  it  being  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of  this 
section  to  make  the  cost  and  expense  of  all  public  improvements,  to 
be  paid  for  by  a  special  assessment,  a  charge  upon  the  property 
assessed  therefor,  for  the  full  period  of  five  years,  from  the  confirma- 
tion of  the  original  assessment,  and  for  such  longer  period  as  may 
be  required  to  collect,  in  due  course  of  law,  any  new  asssessment 
ordered  within  that  period. 

Contracts  -payable  from  assessments^  §  49.  All  persons  taking 
any  contracts  with  the  city  or  village,  and  who  agree  to  be  paid 
from  special  assessments,  shall  have  no  claim  or  lien  upon  the  city 
or  village  in  any  event,  except  from  the  collections  of  the  special 
assessments  made  for  the  work  contracted  for. 

Hoiv  contracts  let — approval^  §  50.  All  contracts  for  the 
making  of  any  public  improvement,  to  be  paid  for  in  whole  or  in 
part  by  a  special  assessment,  and  any  work  or  other  public  improve- 
ment, when  the  expense  thereof  shall  exceed  $500,  shall  be  let  to 
the  lowest  responsible  bidder,  in  the  manner  to  be  prescribed  by 
ordinance — such  contracts  to  be  approved  by  the  mayor  or  president 
of  the  board  of  trustees:  Provided,  however,  any  such  contract  may 
be  entered  into  by  the  proper  officer  without  advertising  for  bids, 
and  without  such  approval,  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  all  the  alder- 
men or  trustees  elected. 

Z, /?;/.]  §  51.  All  special  assessments  levied  by  any  city  or  vil- 
lage under  this  act,  shall,  from  the  date  of  assessment,  be  a  lien 
upon  the  real  estate  upon  which  the  same  may  be  imposed,  and  such 
lien  shall  continue  until  such  special  assessments  are  paid.  And  the 
same  proceedings  may  be  resorted  to  by  the  collector,  upon  any 
warrant  or  order  issued  or  made  for  the  collection  of  special  assess- 
ments, as  in  the  case  of  the  collection  of  state  and  county  taxes 
under  the  general  laws  of  the  state. 

Collection  by  suit^\  §  52-  At  any  time  after  the  same  becomes 
due,  it  shall  and  may  be  lawful  for  any  collector  thereof  to  com- 
mence suit  in  any  court  of  record  in  the  corporate  name  of  such 
city  or  village,  against  any  person  or  persons,  for  the  total  amount 
of  special  assessments  which  such  person  or  persons  are  liable  for 
the  payment  of.  Such  suit  shall  be  commenced  by  petition,  and 
shall  state  the  several  amounts  of  the  special  assessments  sought  to 
be  recovered,  and  give  a  general  description  of  the  warrant  or  war- 
rants issued  for  the  collection  thereof.  Upon  the  filing  of  the  peti- 
tion a  summons  shall  be  issued,  served  and  returned  as  in  other 


3O  STATUTES    RELATING    TO    MUNICIPAL    CORPORATIONS. 

suits  in  such  court.  Upon  the  return  of  such  summons,  duly  served, 
the  court  shall  forthwith  proceed  to  the  hearing  of  said  petition 
without  formal  pleadings,  and  may  render  judgment  for  all  or  any  part 
of  the  special  assessments,  as  the  right  and  justice  of  the  case  may 
require.  The  original,  or  a  certified  copy  (by  the  clerk,  under  the 
corporate  seal),  of  such  warrant  or  warrants  and  list  or  lists,  or  so 
much  thereof  as  refers  to  the  special  assessments  sought  to  be 
recovered,  shall  be  -prima  facie  evidence  of  the  right  of  said  collector 
to  a  judgment  in  favor  of  such  corporation.  Execution  shall  issue 
on  such  judgment  as  in  other  cases,  but  such  execution  may  be  first 
levied  upon  and  collected  from  any  personal  property  of  the  defend- 
ant; or  the  court,  in  which  such  proceedings  were  had,  may,  upon 
complaint  of  the  city  or  village,  issue  a  scire facias  against  the  per- 
son or  persons  liable  for  such  payment,  to  show  cause  why  execu- 
tion should  not  issue  against  him  or  them  for  the  amount  of  such 
assessment  ;  and  if,  upon  the  return  of  such  scire  facias,  good  cause 
is  not  shown  why  execution  should  not  issue,  the  court  may  award 
execution  against  such  person  or  persons  in  the  usual  form  of  exe- 
cution upon  judgments  at  law. 

Supplemental  -petition  to  assess  benefits  in  condemnation  case.\ 
§53-  Whenever  any  city  or  village  shall  apply  to  any  court 
for  the  purpose  of  making  just  compensation  for  property  taken  or 
damaged  by  such  proceedings  as  are  authorized  by  this  act,  such 
city  or  village  may  file  in  the  same  proceeding  a  supplemental  peti- 
tion, praying  the  court  to  cause  that  an  assessment  be  made  for  the 
purpose  of  raising  the  amount  necessary  to  pay  the  compensation 
and  damages  which  may  be  or  shall  have  been  awarded  for  the 
property  taken  or  damaged,  with  the  costs  of  the  proceeding.  The 
said  court  shall  have  power,  at  any  time  after  any  such  supplemen- 
tal petition  shall  have  been  filed,  to  appoint  three  commissioners  to 
make  such  assessment,  and  to  ascertain,  as  near  as  may  be,  the 
costs  incurred  to  the  time  of  such  appointment,  and  the  probable 
further  costs  of  the  proceedings,  including  therein  the  estimated  cost 
of  making  and  collecting  such  assessment,  and  shall  direct  such  cost 
to  be  included  by  such  commissioners  in  making  said  assessment. 
Like  proceedings  in  making  said  assessment  shall  be  had,  and  the 
assessment  shall  be  made,  collected  and  enforced  in  the  same  man- 
ner, as  near  as  may  be,  as  is  provided  in  this  article  in  other  cases. 

Adoption  of  this  article.]  §  54.  Any  city  or  incorporated  town 
or  village  may,  if  it  shall  so  determine  by  ordinance,  adopt  the  pro- 
visions of  this  article  without  adopting  the  whole  of  this  act ;  and 
where  it  shall  have  so  adopted  this  article,  it  shall  have  the  right  to 
take  all  proceedings  in  this  article  provided  for,  and  have  the  bene- 
fit of  all  the  provisions  hereof. 


MISCELLANEOUS  STATUTES. 


ACTIONS    TO    RECOVER    FINES    AND    PENALTIES HOW    BROUGHT. 

AN  ACT  entitled  "  An  act  in  regard  to  suits  by  incorporated  cities  and  villages 
and  to  enforce  penalties  and  recover  fines  for  violating  the  ordinances  thereof." 
[Approved  May  81,  1879.  In  force  July  1,  1879.] 

Suits — how  brought,  etc.~\  §  i.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of 
the  State  of  Illinois  represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That 
all  actions  to  recover  any  fine,  or  to  enforce  any  penalty,  under  any 
ordinance  of  any  city  or  village  in  this  state,  shall  be  brought  in 
the  corporate  name  of  the  city  or  village,  as  plaintiff,  and  no  prose- 
cution, recovery  or  acquittal  for  the  violation  of  any  such  ordinance 
shall  constitute  a  defense  to  any  other  prosecution  of  the  same  party, 
for  any  other  violation  of  any  such  ordinance,  although  the  different 
causes  of  action  existed  at  the  same  time,  and,  if  united,  would  not 
have  exceeded  the  jurisdiction  of  the  court  or  magistrate. 


BONDS. 

AN  ACT  to  amend  an  act,  approved  April  27,  1877,  entitled  "  An  act  to  amend  an 
act  entitled  an  act  relating  to  county  and  city  debts,  and  to  provide  for  the  pay- 
ment thereof,  by  taxation,  in  such  counties  and  cities,  approved  February  13, 
1865,  and  to  amend  the  title  thereof." 

New  bonds  may  be  issued  for  indebtedness  in  place  of  old  ones.'] 
§  i.  That  in  all  cases  where  any  county,  city,  town,  township, 
school  district,  or  other  municipal  corporation,  has  issued  bonds 
or  other  evidences  of  indebtedness,  for  money,  or  has  contracted 
debts,  which  are  the  binding,  subsisting  legal  obligations  of  such 
county,  city,  town,  township,  school  district,  or  other  municipal  cor- 
poration, and  the  same,  or  any  portion  thereof,  remain  outstanding 
and  unpaid,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  proper  corporate  authorities 
of  any  such  county,  city,  town,  township,  school  district,  or  other 
municipal  corporation,  upon  the  surrender  of  any  such  bonds  or 

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32  MISCKLLAXKOUS    STATUTES. 

other  evidences  of  indebtedness,  or  any  number  or  portion  thereof, 
to  issue,  in  lieu  or  place  thereof,  to  the  owners  or  holders  of  the 
same,  new  bonds  prepared  as  hereinafter  directed,  and  for  such 
amounts,  upon  such  time  not  exceeding  twenty  years,  payable  at 
such  place,  and  bearing  such  rate  of  interest,  not  exceeding  seven 
per  centum  per  annum,  as  may  be  agreed  upon  with  the  owners  or 
holders  of  such  outstanding  bonds  or  other  evidences  of  indebted- 
ness :  Provided^  that  bonds  issued  under  this  act,  to  mature  within 
live  years  from  their  date,  may  bear  interest  not  to  exceed  eight  per 
cent,  per  annum.  And  it  shall  also  be  lawful  for  the  proper  cor- 
porate authorities  of  any  such  county,  city,  town,  township,  school 
district,  or  other  municipal  corporation,  to  cause  to  be  thus  issued, 
such  new  bonds,  and  sell  the  same  to  raise  money  to  purchase  or 
retire  any  or  all  of  such  outstanding  bonds  or  other  evidences  of 
indebtedness;  the  proceeds  of  the  sales  of  such  new  bonds  to  be 
expended,  under  the  direction  of  the  corporate  authorities  aforesaid, 
in  the  purchase  or  retiring  of  the  outstanding  bonds  or  other  evi- 
dences of  indebtedness  of  such  county,  city,  town,  township,  school 
district,  or  other  municipal  corporation,  and  for  no  other  purpose 
whatever.  All  bonds  or  other  evidences  of  indebtedness,  issued 
under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  show  upon  their  face  that 
they  are  issued  under  this  act,  and  the  purpose  for  which  they  are 
issued,  and  shall  be  of  uniform  design  and  style,  throughout  the 
state,  to  be  prescribed  by  the  state  auditor,  whose  imperative  duty 
it  shall  be  to  devise  and  prepare  such  uniform  style  and  draft  adapted 
to  the  classes  of  bonds  herein  provided  for,  namely:  The  first  class 
to  consist  of  bonds,  of  which  only  the  interest  is  payable  annually; 
the  second  class  to  consist  of  those  of  which  the  interest  and  five 
per  centum  of  the  principal  are  to  be  paid  annually;  and  the  third 
class  to  consist  of  a  graduated  series,  the  first  grade  made  payable, 
principal  and  interest,  at  the  end  of  one  year  from  the  date  of  issue; 
the  second  at  the  end  of  two  years,  and  thus  to  the  end  of  the 
series,  the  class  to  be  issued  being  at  the  option  of  the  legal  voters 
expressed  as  herein  provided.  In  any  case,  the  new  bonds,  or  other 
evidences  of  indebtedness,  authorized  to  be  issued  by  this  act,  shall 
net  be  for  a  greater  sum,  in  the  aggregate,  than  the  principal  and 
accrued  or  earned  interest  unpaid  of  such  outstanding  bonds  or 
other  evidences  of  indebtedness.  And  when  such  new  bonds,  or 
other  evidences  of  indebtedness,  shall  have  been  issued,  in  order  to 
be  placed  on  the  market  and  sold  to  obtain  proceeds  with  which  to 
retire  outstanding  bonds,  or  other  evidences  of  indebtedness,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  state  auditor,  on  the  request  of  the  corporate 
authorities  issuing  them,  and  at  the  expense  of  the  corporation  in 
whose  behalf  the  issue  is  thus  made,  to  negotiate  the  same,  at  not 
less  than  par  value,  and  on  the  best  terms  which  can  be  obtained: 


MUNICIPAL    BONDS.  33 

always  that  any  such  county,  city,  town,  township,  school 
district  or  other  municipal  corporation  issuing  bonds  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act,  may,  through  its  corporate  authorities  duly  author- 
ized, negotiate,  sell  or  dispose  of  said  bonds,  or  any  part  thereof,  at 
not  less  than  their  par  value  without  the  intervention  of  -the  auditor 
of  state:  And  provided,  further,  that  no  new  bonds,  or  other 
evidences  of  indebtedness,  shall  be  issued  under  this  act  unless  the 
same  shall  be  first  authorized,  as  hereinafter  provided,  by  a  vote  of 
a  majority  of  the  legal  voters  of  such  county,  city,  town,  township, 
school  district,  or  other  municipal  corporation  voting  at  some  general 
election,  or  special  election  held  for  that  purpose. 

I '<i  I  nation  of  taxable  property  to  be  indorsed  on  bond^  §  2.  In 
all  cases  where  any  county,  city,  town,  township,  school  district  or 
other  municipal  corporation  shall  issue  any  bonds  or  evidences  of 
indebtedness,  under  this  act,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  county  clerk 
of  such  county,  or  other  officer  to  whom,  or  to  whose  office,  the  as- 
sessment rolls  for  state  taxation  of  the  property  within  such  county, 
city,  town,  township,  school  district,  or  other  municipal  corporation, 
are  or  shall  be  returnable,  within  five  days  after  the  total  value  of 
the  property  subject  to  taxation  therein  shall  be  returned  to  him,  to 
make  out  and  transmit  to  the  auditor  of  public  accounts,  to  be  filed 
in  his  office,  a  certificate  setting  forth  the  total  value  of  all  taxable 
property,  of  every  nature  an^  description,  within  such  county,  city, 
town,  township,  school  district,  or  other  municipal  corporation,  as 
exhibited  by  such  assessment.  And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
auditor  of  public  accounts  to  place  on  the  baqk  of  all  new  bonds,  or 
other  evidences  of  indebtedness,  issued  under  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  a  certificate  setting  forth  an  aggregate  statement  of  the  amount 
of  valuation  of  the  taxable  property  of  the  municipal  corporation 
issuing  such  new  bonds,  or  other  evidences  of  indebtedness;  said 
certificate  specifically  distinguishing  the  value  of  real  estate  and 
personal  property,  and  being  based  on  the  return  provided  for  in 
this  section,  or,  if  there  should  be  no  such  return  made  by  the 
county  clerk  to  the  state  auditor,  then  based  on  an  affidavit  made 
by  the  officials  of  the  corporation  issuing  the  bonds. 

Election — notice.^  §  3.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  corporate  au- 
thorities of  any  such  municipal  corporation,  or  officers  authorized 
by  law  to  call  elections  therein,  on  the  petition  of  ten  legal  voters, 
resident  therein,  to  submit  to  the  voters  thereof,  at  any  general  or 
special  election,  the  question  of  issuing  bonds  under  this  act,  by  post- 
ing a  notice  in  ten  of  the  most  public  places  therein,  and  by  publish- 
ing the  same  in  the  nearest  newspaper,  twenty  days  before  said 
(.•lection, which  notice  shall  state  the  number  and  amount  of  bonds  pro- 
posed to  be  issued;  the  kind  or  class  thereof  as  specified  in  the  first 


34  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

section  of  the  act  of  1865  as  hereby  amended,  and  as  also  amended 
by  the  said  act  of  1877;  the  amount  of  each;  the  rate  of  interest, 
under  the  limitation  of  this  amendatory  act;  when  and  where  paya- 
ble; for  what  purpose  issued,  «and  the  time  and  place  when  and 
where  said  election  will  be  held.  And  upon  like  petition  and  notice 
it  shall  be  lawful  for  such  corporate  authorities,  or  officers,  to  sub- 
mit the  question  of  issuing  bonds  under  this  act,  at  a  special  election, 
which  shall  be  held  and  conducted  in  like  manner  as  other  elections 
therein.  The  ballots  shall  read  "  For  issuing  the  bonds,"  or, 
"  Against  issuing  the  bonds."  If  a  majority  of  the  votes  cast  be  for 
issuing  the  bonds,  the  same  shall  be  issued  in  conformity  to  the 
specifications  of  said  notice.  Nothing  contained  in  this  act,  or  in 
the  acts  to  which  this  is  an  amendment,  shall  be  held  to  repeal,  or 
in  any  wise  affect  the  power  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  to  issue  new 
bonds  of  said  city  conferred  by  an  act  of  the  general  assembly, 
approved  February  13,  1865,  amending  the  charter  of  said  city,  nor 
to,  in  anywise,  affect  any  other  law  which  authorizes  municipal  cor- 
porations to  issue  bonds,  or  other  evidences  of  indebtedness,  and 
which  does  not  provide  for  the  registration  thereof. 

Registration^  §  4.  Upon  the  surrender  of  any  bond,  or  other 
evidence  of  indebtedness,  under  this  act,  the  same  shall  be  endorsed 
canceled,  and  shall  from  time  to  time,  be  destroyed,  under  the  di- 
rection of  the  authority  issuing  the  same.  Upon  the  issuing  of  any 
new  bond,  or  evidence  of  indebtedness,  the  clerk,  or  other  officer 
having  custody  of  the  records  of  the  fiscal  matters  of  such  county, 
city,  town,  township,  school  district  or  other  municipal  corporation, 
as  the  case  may  be,  shall  make  registration  thereof  in  a  book  to  be 
kept  in  his  office  for  that  purpose,  showing  the  date,  amount, 
number,  class,  date  of  maturity,  rate  of  interest  and  place  of  pay- 
ment of  such  new  bond,  or  other  evidence  of  indebtedness,  and  the 
description  of  the  bond  or  evidence  of  indebtedness,  for  which,  or 
for  the  purchasing  or  retiring  of  which,  the  same  was  given,  as 
nearly  as  practicable.  On  presentation  of  any  such  new  bond  or 
evidence  of  indebtedness,  issued  under  this  act,  at  the  office  of  the 
auditor  of  public  accounts,  for  registration,  the  said  auditor  shall 
cause  the  same  to  be  registered  in  his  office,  in  a  book  to  be  kept 
for  that  purpose;  such  registration  shall  show  the  date,  amount, 
number,  class,  date  of  maturity,  rate  of  interest,  time  when  such  in- 
terest is  payable,  and  place  of  payment  of  the  principal  and  interest 
of  such  bond,  or  other  evidence  of  indebtedness,  under  what  act,  by 
what  authority,  for  what  purpose  and  by  what  county,  city,  town, 
township,  school  district,  or  other  muncipal  corporation  issued,  and 
the  name  of  the  person,  or  persons,  presenting  the  same  for  regis- 
tration, and  for  such  registration  the  auditor  shall  be  entitled  to  a  fee 


MUNICIPAL    BONDS.  35 

of  twenty-five  cents,  and  the  auditor  shall,  under  his  seal  of  office, 
certify  upon  such  bond  the  fact  of  such  registration,  for  which  the 
auditor  shall  be  entitled  to  a  fee  of  twenty-five  cents,  such  fees  to 
be  paid  by  the  person  or  persons  desiring  such  registration  and  cer- 
tificate. No  bonds  issued  under  this  act  shall  be  entitled  to  regis- 
tration in  the  office  of  the  state  auditor,  until  a  sworn  certificate 
shall  have  been  filed  with  him,  showing  that  all  the  requirements  of 
this  act  have  been  fully  complied  with,  in  their  issue.  In  the  case 
of  county  bonds,  such  affidavits  shall  be  made  by  the  chairman  of 
the  county  board.  In  case  of  township  bonds,  by  the  supervisor  of 
such  township.  In  case  of  city  bonds,  by  the  mayor  of  such  city; 
in  case  of  town  or  village  bonds,  by  the  chairman  of  the  town  or 
village  board;  and  in  case  of  school  district  bonds,  by  each  of  the 
directors  of  such  school  district.  Said  certificate  shall  set  forth 
the  date  of  the  election  at  which  the  people  authorized  the  issu- 
ance of  the  bonds,  and  shall  state  the  class,  date,  number,  amount, 
rate  of  interest,  and  date  of  maturity  of  the  bonds,  the  aggregate 
equalized  value  of  real  property,  and  the  aggregate  equalized  value 
of  personal  property  assessed  in  such  locality  for  the  previous 
year,  together  with  any  other  information  in  relation  thereto,  which 
may  be  demanded  by  the  auditor  of  public  accounts. 

Auditor  to  certify  rate  required.^  §  5.  When  the  bonds,  or  other 
evidences  of  indebtedness,  of  any  county,  city,  town,  township,  school 
district  or  other  municipal  corporation,  shall  be  so  registerd,  the 
auditor  of  public  accounts  shall  annually  ascertain  the  amount  of 
principal  and  interest  due  and  accrued,  and  to  accrue,  for  the  cur- 
rent year,  on  all  such  bonds  and  evidences  of  indebtedness,  so  regis- 
tered in  his  office,  and  shall  upon  the  basis  of  the  certificate  of  the 
valuation  of  property  to  be  transmitted  to  him,  as  aforesaid,  or,  in 
case  no  such  certificate  shall  be  transmitted  to  him,  or  filed  in  his  office, 
then  upon  the  basis  of  the  total  valuation  of  the  property  in  such 
county,  city,  town,  township,  school  district  or  other  municipal  corpo- 
ration, for  the  year  next  preceding,  estimate  and  determine  the  rate 
per  centum,  upon  the  valuation  of  such  property,  requisite  to  meet 
and  satisfy  the  said  interest,  or  interest  and  principal,  as  the  case  may 
be,  together  with  the  ordinary  cost  to  the  state,  of  the  collection  and 
disbursement  of  the  same,  to  be  estimated  by  the  auditor  and  state 
treasurer,  and  shall  make  and  transmit  to  the  county  clerk  of  such 
county,  or  of  the  county  in  which  such  city,  town,  township,  school 
district,  or  other  munincipal  corporation  is  situated,  or  to  the  officer 
or  authority  whose  duty  it  is,  or  may  be,  to  prepare  the  estimates 
and  books  for  the  collection  of  state  taxes  in  such  county,  city,  town, 
township,  school  district  or  other  municipal  corporation,  a  certificate 
setting  forth  such  estimated  requisite  per  centum  for  such  purposes, 
4 


36  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

to  be  filed  in  his  office;  and  the  said  per  centum  shall  thereupon  be 
deemed  added  to  and  a  part  of  the  per  centum  which  is  or  may  be 
levied,  or  provided  by  law,  for  the  purposes  of  state  revenue,  and 
shall  be  so  treated  by  such  clerk,  officer  or  authority  in  making 
such  estimates  and  books  for  the  collection  of  state  taxes :  and  the 
said  taxes  shall  be  collected  \vith  the  state  taxes;  and  all  laws  re- 
lating to  the  state  revenue  shall  apply  thereto,  except  as  herein 
otherwise  provided:  Provided,  that  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  county 
collector  at  any  time  before  settlement  with  the  state  treasurer  to 
pay  from  such  taxes,  any  coupons  that  are  due  for  interest  that  may 
be  presented  for  payment,  and  to  pay  from  any  surplus,  not  required 
for  interest  purposes,  the  principal  of  any  such  bond  that  may  be 
presented  for  payment,  whether  due  or  not,  and  in  settlement  with 
the  state  treasurer  the  county  collector  shall  be  credited  with  such 
paid  coupons  and  bonds  the  same  as  money. 

State  custodian — collection — payment]  §  6.  The  state  shall  be 
deemed  the  custodian  only  of  the  tax  so  collected,  and  shall  not  be 
deemed,  in  any  manner,  liable  on  account  of  such  bonds,  or  other  evi- 
dences of  indebtedness:  but  the  tax  and  funds  so  collected  shall  be 
deemed  pledged  and  appropriated  to  the  pavment  of  the  principal  and 
interest  of  the  registered  bonds,  and  evidences  of  indebtedness, 
to  satisfy  which,  the  same  is  hereinbefore  provided  to  be  col- 
lected, as  aforesaid,  and  such  new  bonds  and  evidences  of  indebted- 
ness, issued  under  the  authority  hereof,  shall  be  deemed  secured  and 
provided  for,  in  virtue  and  faith  hereof,  until  fully  satisfied.  The 
state  shall,  annually  collect  and  apply  the  said  fund  to  the  satisfac- 
tion of  the  interest,  or  interest  and  portion  of  the  principal,  as  the 
case  may  be,  of  such  registered  bonds,  or  evidences  of  indebt- 
edness, of  any  such  county,  city,  town,  township,  school  district,  or 
other  municipal  corporation,  to  the  extent  the  same  is  herein  con- 
templated to  be  derived  from  such  tax,  in  the  same  manner  as  the 
interest  on  the  bonds  of  the  state  is.  or  may  be  collected,  or  paid, 
and  in  like  moneys  as  shall  be  receivable  in  payment  of  state  taxes; 
and  money  so  paid  upon  the  principal  of  any  such  bonds,  or  evi- 
dences of  indebtedness,  shall  be  endorsed  thereon,  and  due  receipts 
therefor  shall  be  taken  and  filed  in  the  office  of  the  auditor  of  public 
accounts,  or  state  treasurer,  and  interest  coupons,  or  bonds  or  other 
evidences  of  indebtedness,  so  paid,  shall  be  returned  to  one  of  said 
officers,  and  shall  be  canceled  and  returned  to  the  corporate  authori- 
ties of  the  municipality  which  issued  the  same,  in  the  manner  now 
provided  by  law. 

How  money  disbursed.]  8  7.  The  state  may,  out  of  such  fund, 
first  retain  or  satisfy  the  ordinary  cost  to  the  state,  of  the  collection 
and  disbursement  thereof;  and  in  case  of  the  non-presentment  of  any 


MUNICIPAL    BONDS.  37 

such  bond,  or  evidence  of  indebtedness,  or  interest  coupon  of 
any  such  county,  city,  town,  township,  school  district,  or  other 
municipal  corporation,  for  payment,  at  the  times  and  when  and  where 
the  interest  on  the  state  debt  is,  or  may  be  paid,  then,  on  the  begin- 
ning of  the  next  year,  the  moneys  by  reason  thereof  undisbursed, 
together  with  any  surplus  for  any  cause  remaining,  shall  be  carried 
to  the  fund  of  such  county,  city,  town,  township,  school  district  or 
other  municipal  corporation  of  the  current  or  ensuing  year,  and  be 
considered  by  the  auditor  in  making  his  next  estimate  for  taxation 
therein  for  such  year  under  this  act,  and  shall  be  applied  according- 
ly. All  laws  relating  to  the  payment  of  interest  on  the  state  debt, 
or  the  cancellation  of  the  evidences  thereof,  not  inconsistent  with  this 
act,  shall  apply  to  the  receipt,  custody  and  disbursement  of  the  taxes 
and  funds  provided  by  this  act. 

When  registered  bonds  mature  and  are  not  paid]  §  8.  Upon 
the  maturity  of  such  registered  bond,  or  other  evidence  of  indebt- 
edness, and  the  non-payment  thereof  by  the  county,  city,  town, 
township,  school  district,  or  other  municipal  corporation  issuing  the 
same,  the  holder  thereof  may  cause  the  same  to  be  registered  in  the 
office  of  the  auditor,  as  a  matured  or  unsatisfied  bond,  or  evidence 
of  indebtedness,  and  thereupon,  for  the  purpose  of  providing  for  the 
payment  of  the  principal  thereof,  at  the  rate  of  five  per  centum  of 
such  principal  annually,  and  of  the  interest  thereon  in  arrear,  and 
for  the  current  year  to  accrue,  together  with  the  cost  to  the  state  of 
the  collection  and  disbursement  thereof,  as  aforesaid,  the  same  pro- 
ceedings in  all  respects,  shall  be  had  as  is  hereinbefore  provided  for 
the  payment  of  the  interest  on  such  bonds  and  evidences  of  indebted- 
ness, by  the  collection  of  an  annual  tax  sufficient  for  the  purposes 
in  the  section  contemplated;  and  the  same  shall  be  collected  and 
applied,  as  aforesaid,  to  such  purpose,  from  year  to  year,  until  the  full 
satisfaction  thereof,  when  such  bonds  or  evidences  of  indebtedness 
shall  be  canceled  and  returned,  as  hereinbefore  provided. 

Entry  of  payment.]  §  9.  Upon  the  payment  of  any  such 
registered  bond,  or  evidence  of  indebtedness,  and  presentation 
thereof  to  the  auditor,  he  shall  cause  due  entry  thereof  to  be  made 
in  his  office. 

fees— collector's  bond.]  §  10.  There  shall  be  allowed  to  the 
officers  collecting  and  paying  over  the  taxes  authorized  to  be  col- 
lected under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  the  same  fees  or  compensa- 
tion as  is  or  may  be  allowed  by  law  for  collecting  and  paying  over 
state  taxes,  and.  where  such  tax  is  levied,  the  bonds  of  the  collectors 
thereof  shall  be  increased  in  proportion  to  the  estimated  amount  of 
such  tax  to  be  collected. 


38  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

Bonds — by  -whom  executed^  §  n.  All  bonds  issued  under  this 
act  shall  be  executed  on  behalf  of  the  municipalities  issuing  the  same, 
by  the  following  named  officers,  viz:  On  behalf  of  counties  under 
the  township  organization  laws  of  this  state,  by  the  chairman  of  the 
board  of  supervisors,  and  the  clerk  of  the  county  court  attesting  the 
same  with  his  signature  and  official  seal.  On  behalf  of  counties  not 
under  township  organization,  by  the  acting  chairman  of  the  board 
of  county  commissioners,  together  with  the  clerk  of  the  county 
court  attesting  the  same  with  his  signature  and  official  seal.  On 
behalf  of  cities,  by  the  mayor  and  city  clerk,  together  with  the  seal  of 
the  city;  on  behalf  of  towns  organized  under  the  township  organiza- 
tion law  of  this  state,  by  the  supervisor  or  supervisors  of  such  town 
(as  the  case  may  be)  and  the  town  clerk  of  such  towns.  On  behalf 
of  all  other  municipalities  hereinbefore  mentioned,  by  the  president, 
chairman,  or  chief  executive  officer  thereof,  together  with  the  clerk 
or  secretary  thereof:  Provided,  that  nothing  herein  contained  shall 
be  so  construed  as  to  authorize  the  officers  herein  mentioned  to  issue 
bonds  under  this  act,  except  upon  a  majority  vote  of  the  voters,  as 
hereinbefore  provided. 


SINKING  FUND  FOR  LOCAL  INDEBTEDNESS. 

AN  ACT  to  provide  a  sinking  fund  for  local  indebtedness.   [Approved  May  28,  1881.] 

Sinking  fund — how  created^  §  i.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of 
the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  General  Assembly ,  That  when- 
ever any  county,  township,  city,  town  or  school  district  shall  owe 
any  bonded  debt  not  due,  which  is  registered  in  the  office  of  the 
auditor  of  this  state,  the  board  of  supervisors  or  board  of  county  com- 
missioners, town  auditors,  city  council,  town  trustees  or  school  direc- 
tors of  such  county,  township,  city,  town  or  school  district,  as  the 
case  may  be,  may,  by  resolution  spread  upon  their  records  and  cer- 
tified to  the  auditor,  request  said  auditor  to  create  a  sinking  fund  to 
meet  any  such  debt,  or  any  installment  thereof,  by  the  time  the  same 
shall  become  due  and  payable.  Said  resolution  shall  specify  the 
principal  amount  to  be  so  provided  for,  the  time  when  the  same 
shall  become  due,  and  the  amount  they  desire  raised  annually  to 
meet  the  same. 

Auditor  to  fix  and  certify  ratel\  §  2,  Upon  the  receipt  of  such 
resolution  the  auditor  shall  file  in  his  office  the  same,  and  thereafter 
it  shall  be  his  duty,  in  certifying  the  amount  of  taxes  to  be  raised 
within  said  district,  to  fix  and  certify  a  rate  to  be  denominated 
"  sinking  fund  tax,"  sufficient  to  produce  the  amount  annually 


SINKING     1'1'M)     FOR     LOCAL    INDEBTEDNESS.  39 

required   in    said   resolution,  and  the  same  shall  be  levied,  extended 
and  collected  and  paid  into  the  state  treasury  the  same  as  other 

state  taxes. 

Fund  hoi:'  hrcested.\  §  3.  The  state  treasurer  shall  receive 
said  taxes  so  collected  and  shall  invest  the  same  in  U.  S.  Govern- 
ment bonds,  or  in  the  bonds  of  the  county,  township,  city,  village  or 
school  district,  to  which  said  fund  belongs,  and  for  which  it  is 
created,  at  the  lowest  price  for  which  such  bonds  can  be  purchased, 
not  however  to  exceed  the  par  value  and  accrued  interest,  and  such 
county  commissioners,  supervisors,  town  auditors,  city  council,  town  or 
village  trustees,  or  school  directors,  shall  have  the  right  to  deter- 
mine the  kind  of  bonds  they  will  authorize  to  be  purchased,  and  to  fix 
the  maximum  price  that  may  be  paid  for  the  same,  and,  in  case  of  the 
purchase  of  government  bonds,  then  the  treasurer  shall  receive  the 
interest  as  it  accrues  on  said  bonds  and  re-invest  it  in  the  same  kind 
of  securities,  and  in  case  of  the  purchase  of  the  bonds  for  which 
the  sinking  fund  is  raised,  then  such  purchased  bonds  shall  be 
returned  to  the  count}-,  township,  city,  village  or  school  district,  and 
be  canceled  or  destroyed  by  the  proper  authorities. 

AN  ACT  to  enable  counties,  cities,  townships,  school  districts,  and  other  municipal 
corporations,  to  take  up  and  cancel  outstanding  bonds  and  other  evidences  <>i 
indebtedness,  and  fund  the  same.  [Approved  and  in  force  March  2'!,  1H72.) 

^Vc-.i'  bonds  for  old  indebtedness^  ^  i.  J>c  it  enacted  by  the 
People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  General  Assembly. 
That  in  all  cases  where  any  county,  city,  town,  township,  school  dis- 
trict, or  other  municipal  corporation,  have  issued  bonds  or  other 
evidences  of  indebtedness  for  money,  on  account  of  any  subscription 
to  the  capital  stock  of  any  railroad  company,  or  on  account  of,  or  in 
aid  of  any  public  buildings  or  other  public  improvement,  or  for  any 
other  purposes  which  are  now  binding  or  subsisting  legal  obligations 
against  any  county,  city,  town,  township,  school  district,  or  other 
municipal  corporations,  and  remaining  outstanding,  and  which  are 
properly  authorized  by  law,  the  proper  authorities  of  any  such  county. 
city,  town,  township,  school  district  or  other  municipal  corporations 
may.  upon  the  surrender  of  any  such  bonds,  or  other  evidences  of 
indebtedness,  or  any  number  thereof,  issue  in  place  or  in  lieu  thereof 
to  the  holders  or  owners  of  the  same,  new  bonds  or  other  evidences 
of  indebtedness,  in  such  form,  for  such  amount,  uj:cn  such  time, net 
exceeding  the  term  of  twenty  years,  and  drawing  such  rate  of  inter- 
est, not  e\eeedin»"  ten  per  cent..,  as  may  be  agreed  upon  with  such 
holders  or  owners;  and  such  new  bonds  or  other  evidences  of  indebt- 
edness, so  issued,  shall  show  on  their  face  that  they  are  issued 
under  this  act:  Pnrcided^  that  the  issue  of  such  new  bonds  in  lieu  o! 


40  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

such  indebtedness,  shall  first  be  authorized  by  a  vote  of  a  majority 
of  the  legal  voters  of  such  county,  city,  town,  township,  school  dis- 
trict or  other  municipal  corporation,  voting  either  at  some  annual  or 
special  election  of  such  municipal  corporation:  And  -provided, 
further,  that  such  bonds,  or  other  evidences  of  indebtedness,  shall 
not  be  issued  so  as  to  increase  the  aggregate  indebtedness  of  such 
municipal  corporation  beyond  five  per  centum  on  the  value  of  the 
taxable  property  therein — to  be  ascertained  by  the  last  assessment 
for  state  and  county  taxes,  prior  to  the  issuing  of  such  bonds  or  other 
evidences  of  indebtedness.  Nothing  contained  in  this  act,  or  in  the 
act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment,  shall  be  held  to  repeal  or  in  any- 
wise affect  the  power  of  the  city  of  Chicago  to  issue  new  bonds  to 
an  amount  sufficient  to  retire  and  satisfy  maturing  bonds  of  said  city, 
conferred  by  section  38  of  an  act  of  the  general  assembly,  approved 
February  13,  1863,  amending  the  charter  of  said  city. 

Emergency^  §  2.  Whereas,  some  counties,  cities,  townships 
and  other  municipal  corporations  in  this  state,  have  outstanding 
bonds  and  other  evidences  of  indebtedness  that  will  soon  fall  due, 
and  are  without  any  remedy  for  renewing  or  funding  the  same,  there- 
fore this  act  shall  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 


OFFICIAL    BONDS. 

AN  ACT  to  revise  the   law  in  relation  to  official   bonds.     [Approved  March  13, 
1874.     In  force  July  1,  1874.] 

When  additional  or  new  bonds  may  be  required^  §  i .  Be  it  en- 
acted by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly,  That  all  official  bonds  required  by  law  to  be  given 
by  any  public  officer,  or  public  employe,  including  executors,  admin- 
istrators, guardians  and  conservators,  in  this  state,  shall  be  signed 
and  sealed  by  any  said  officer,  employe,  executor,  administrator, 
guardian  or  conservator  and  his  securities,  and  acknowledged 
before  some  officer  authorized  by  law  to  take  acknowledgments  of 
instruments  under  seal,  which  said  acknowledgments  shall  be  sub- 
stantially in  the  following  form: 

S  I   \TE    OF ) 

County   of \  ss' 

I, hereby  certify  that who  are  each  personally  known  to  me 

to  be  the  same  persons  whose  names  are  subscribed  to  the  foregoing  instrument, 
appeared  before  me  this  day  in  person,  and  acknowledged  that  they  signed,  sealed 
and  delivered  said  instrument  as  their  free  and  voluntary  act  for  the  uses  and  pur- 
poses therein  set  forth. 

Given  under  my  hand  and seal  this dav  of A.  D 


OFFICIAL    BONDS.  4! 

Which  acknowledgment  shall  be  deemed  and  taken  as  -prima 
facie  evidence  that  the  instrument  was  signed,  sealed  and  acknowl- 
edged in  the  manner  therein  set  forth,  and  such  acknowledgments 
shall  have  the  same  force  and  effect  as  evidence  in  all  legal  proceed- 
ings, as  that  given  to  acknowledgments  of  deeds  of  conveyance  of 
real  estate.  That  all  public  officers  or  employes  who  are  compelled 
to  give  official  bonds  may  be  required  by  the  court,  officer,  or  board, 
whose  duty  it  is  to  take  or  approve  such  bonds,  to  give  additional 
surety  or  new  bonds  whenever  the  security  of  the  original  bond  has 
become  insufficient  by  the  subsequent  insolvency,  death  or  removal 
of  the  sureties,  or  any  of  them,  or  when  for  any  cause  any  such 
bond  shall  be  deemed  insufficient.  Any  officer  or  employe  failing 
to  give  bond  when  required,  pursuant  to  this  section,  within  ten  days 
after  he  is  notified  in  writing  of  such  request,  shall  be  deemed  to 
have  vacated  his  office. 


Release  of  sureties.]  §  10.  When  a  surety  upon  the  official 
bond  of  any  state  officer  or  agent,  county,  town,  city,  village,  incorpo- 
rated town  or  other  public  officer,  or  the  heir,  executor  or  adminis- 
trator of  such  surety  desires  to  be  released  from  such  bond, 
he  may  give  notice  in  writing  to  the  officer  upon  whose 
bond  he  is  surety  that  he  desires  to  be  so  released,  and 
that  such  officer  give  a  new  bond  with  sufficient  sureties  within  ten 
days  after  receiving  such  notice,  and  may  within  five  days  after  the 
service  of  such  notice  deliver  a  copy  of  the  same,  with  an  affidavit 
showing  the  time  and  manner  of  service,  to  the  court,  officer,  or 
board  authorized  to  approve  the  bonds  of  such  officers.  And  if 
such  officer  shall  not  within  ten  days  after  receiving  such  notice,  or 
within  such  further  time,  not  exceeding  twenty  days,  as  the  court, 
officer  or  board  shall  allow,  give  a  new  bond  with  sufficient  security, 
approved  as  required  by  law,  his  office  shall  become  vacant,  and 
the  vacancy  shall  be  filled  as  provided  by  law. 

Effect  of  new  bond]  §  n.  If  a  new  bond  shall  be  given  by 
any  officer,  as  provided  in  the  foregoing  sections  of  this  act,  then 
the  former  sureties  shall  be  entirely  released  and  discharged  from 
all  liabilities  incurred  by  any  such  officer  in  consequence  of  business 
which  may  have  come  to  hand  from  and  after  the  time  of  the 
approval  of  the  said  new  bond,  and  the  sureties  to  the  new  bond  are 
hereby  declared  to  be  liable  for  all  the  official  delinquencies  of  said 
officer,  whether  of  omission  or  commission,  which  may  occur  after 
the  approval  of  the  new  bond,  as  aforesaid;  but  the  provisions  of 
this  act  shall  not  be  so  construed  as  to  operate  as  a  release  of  the 


42  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

sureties  of  any  of  the  aforesaid  officers,  for  liabilities  incurred  pre- 
vious to  the  filing  of  a  new  bond,  as  required  in  the  foregoing  sec- 
tions of  this  act. 

When  effects  to  be  delivered  to  sureties^  §12.  It  shall  be  the 
duty  of  such  officer,  if  he  shall  fail  to  give  bond  as  provided  for  in 
this  act,  forthwith  to  deliver  over  to  his  sureties  all  books,  moneys, 
vouchers,  papers,  and  every  description  of  property  whatever  per- 
taining to  his  office,  and  the  said  sureties  may,  at  any  time  after 
said  failure  to  file  said  bond,  maintain  an  action  of  replevin,  or  other 
appropriate  action,  to  recover  such  property,  money  or  effects 
from  their  said  principal. 

Suit  on  bond — executors,  etc^  §  13.  Whenever  the  condition  of 
the  bond  of  any  public  officer  shall  be  violated,  suit  may  be  instituted 
on  such  bond,  and  prosecuted  to  final  judgment  against  such  officer, 
and  any  or  all  of  the  sureties,  or  against  one  or  more  of  them,  joint- 
ly and  severally,  without  first  establishing  the  liability  of  the  princi- 
pal by  obtaining  judgment  against  him  alone.  The  provisions  of 
this  section  shall  extend  to  the  official  bonds  of  executors,  admin- 
istrators, guardians  and  conservators,  and  in  suits  thereon  it  shall 
not  be  necessary  to  a  recovery  that  a  devastavit  should  have  pre- 
viously been  established  against  the  principal. 

Execution — lienl\  §  14.  Execution  may  issue  on  any  judgment 
so  rendered  as  in  ordinary  cases,  but  the  officer  executing  the 
same  shall  not  levy  upon  the  property  of  the  sureties  until  he  shall 
fail  to  find  sufficient  property  of  the  principal  to  satisfy  such  execu- 
tion: Provided,  however,  the  judgment  and  execution  shall  be  a 
lien  upon  the  property  of  the  sureties  as  in  ordinary  cases. 


SALOON    BONDS. 


AN  ACT  to  provide  for  the  licensing  of,  and  against  the  evils  arising  from  the  sale 
of  intoxicating  liquors.     [Approved  March  30,  1874.     In  force  July  1,  1874.] 


Bond — how  taken — suit  on.~]  §  5.  No  person  shall  be  licensed 
to  keep  a  dram  shop,  or  to  sell  intoxicating  liquors,  by  any  county 
board,  or  the  authorities  of  any  city,  town  or  village,  unless  he  shall 
first  give  bond  in  the  penal  sum  of  $3,000,  payable  to  the  people 
of  the  state  of  Illinois,  with  at  least  two  good  and  sufficient  sure- 
ties, free  holders  of  the  county  in  which  the  license  is  to  be  granted, 
to  be  approved  by  the  officer  who  may  be  authorized  to  issue  the 


SALOON    BONDS CRIMINAL    CODE ELECTIONS.  43 

license,  conditioned  that  he  will  pay  to  all  persons  all  damages  that 
they  may  sustain,  either  in  person  or  property,  or  means  of  support, 
by  reason  of  the  person  so  obtaining  a  license  selling  or  giving  away 
intoxicating  liquors.  The  officer  taking  such  bond  may  examine 
any  person  offered  as  security  upon  any  such  bond,  under  oath,  and 
require  him  to  subscribe  and  swear  to  his  statement  in  regard  to  his 
pecuniary  ability  to  become  such  security.  Any  bond  taken  pursu- 
ant to  this  section  may  be  sued  upon  for  the  use  of  any  person,  or 
his  legal  representatives,  who  may  be  injured  by  reason  of  the  sell- 
ing or  giving  away  any  intoxicating  liquor  by  the  person  so  licensed, 
or  by  his  agent  or  servant. 


CRIMINAL  CODE. 

AN  ACT  to  revise  the  law  in  relation  to  criminal  jurisprudence.  [Approved  March 
27,  1874.     In  force  July  1,  1874.] 


Duty  of  officer '5.]  §  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  sheriff,  coroner, 
constable,  and  every  marshal,  policeman,  or  other  officer  of  any  incor- 
porated city,  town  or  village,  having  the  power  of  a  sheriff  or 
constable,  when  any  criminal  offense  or  breach  of  the  peace  is  com- 
mitted or  attempted  in  his  presence,  forthwith  to  apprehend  the 
offender  and  bring  him  before  some  justice  of  the  peace,  to  be 
dealt  with  according  to  law;  to  suppress  all  riots  and  unlawful 
assemblies,  and  to  keep  the  peace,  and  without  delay  to  serve  and 
execute  all  warrants,  writs,  precepts  and  other  process  to  him  law- 
fully directed. 


ELECTIONS. 

AN  ACT  to  revise  the  law  in  relation  to  township  organization.     [Approved  and 
in  force  March  4th,  1874.] 

ARTICLE  VI. 
J^oivn  Meeting—  Judges  of  Election. 

Time  of  holding  meetingl\  §  i.  The  annual  town  meeting,  in 
the  respective  towns,  for  the  election  of  town  officers,  and  the  trans- 
action of  the  business  of  the  town,  shall  be  held  on  the  first  Tues- 
day of  April  in  each  year,  at  the  place  appointed  for  such  meetings. 


§  2.     Notice  of  the  time   and  place   of  holding  town 
meetings  shall  be  given  by  the  town  clerk,  or,  in   his   absence,  the 


44  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

supervisor,  assessor  or  collector,  by  posting  written  or  printed  notices 
in  three  of  the  most  public  places  in  the  town,  at  least  ten  days  prior 
to  the  meeting,  and  if  there  is  a  newspaper  published  in  the  town, 
by  at  least  one  publication  therein,  prior  to  the  meeting. 

ARTICLE  VII. 

Town  Officers  Elected  by  Ballot — Mode  of  Conducting  Elections  for 

Town  Officers. 

Election  of  officers.]  §  i.  At  the  annual  town  meeting  in  each 
town  there  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  one  supervisor,  (who  shall  be 
ex  qfficio  overseer  of  the  poor,)  one  town  clerk,  one  assessor  and  one 
collector,  who  shall  severally'  hold  their  offices  for  one  year,  and 
until  their  successors  are  elected  and  qualified,  and  such  justices  of 
the  peace,  constables  and  highway  commissioners  as  are  provided 
by  law.  *  *  * 

Organizing  town  meeting — moderator  ^\  §  2.  The  electors  pres- 
ent at  any  time  between  the  hours  of  eight  and  nine  o'clock  in  the 
forenoon  of  the  dav  on  which  there  is  an  annual  or  special  town 
meeting,  shall  be  called  to  order  by  the  town  clerk,  if  there  be  one; 
in  case  there  be  none,  or  he  is  not  present,  then  the  voters  may  elect, 
by  acclamation,  one  of  their  number  chairman.  They  shall  then 
proceed  to  choose  one  of  their  number  to  preside  as  moderator  of 
such  town  meeting. 

Powers  of  moderator^  §  3.  The  moderator  so  chosen  shall  have 
the  same  power  and  be  subjected  to  the  same  penalties  as  other 
judges  of  election. 

Oath  of  moderator^  §  4.  Before  the  moderator  of  any  town 
meeting  shall  enter  upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  he  shall  take  an 
oath  faithfully  and  impartially  to  discharge  the  duties  of  such  office, 
which  oath  may  be  administered  by  the  town  clerk,  or  other  proper 
officer. 

Clerk — minutes.]  §  5.  The  town  clerk  last  before  elected  or 
appointed,  shall  be  the  clerk  of  the  town  meeting,  and  shall  keep 
faithful  minutes  of  its  proceedings,  in  which  he  shall  enter,  at  length, 
every  order  or  direction,  and  all  rules  and  regulations  made  by  such 
meeting. 

Clerk  pro  tern.]  §  6.  If  the  to\vn  clerk  be  absent,  then  such 
person  as  shall  be  chosen  for  that  purpose  by  the  electors  present, 
shall  act  as  clerk  of  the  meeting. 


ELECTIONS.  45 

ttallot   hoxcs — polling  place*     rdnvdss^\     §  7.     The    town    shall 
•supply  a  suitable  ballot  box  or  boxes,  to  be  kept  and  used  in  like 
imanner  as  ballot  boxes  in  other  elections.     In  incorporated  towns, 
•or  in  incorporated  villages  whose  limits  are  co-extensive  with   the 
.limits  of  a  town,  or  in  any  organized  town  where  the  number  of 
votes  at  the  last  preceding  general  election  exceeded  three  hundred, 
.the  county   board  may  require  one  or  more  additional  ballot  boxes 
and  places  for  the  reception  of  votes  to  be  provided,  which  places 
shall  be  selected  with  reference  to  the  convenience  of  the  electors 
of  the  town,  and  shall  designate  at  which  of  said  polling  places  the 
town  clerk  shall    act   as  clerk  of    the  election,  and   such    polling 
•place,  when  so  designated,  shall   be   the   place  for  transacting  the 
miscellaneous  business  of  the  town.     And  when  several  places  are 
so  provided,  the  electors  present  shall  choose  from  their  number  one 
assistant  moderator  and  one  assistant  clerk  for  each  additional  ballot 
box,  to  receive  the  votes  therein,  who  shall  take  the  same  oath  and 
l>e  subject  to  the  same  penalties  as  the  moderator  and  clerk,  and 
shall   be  under  the  direction  of  the  moderator.     At  the  closing  of 
the  polls  all  the  said  ballot  boxes  shall  be  brought  together  at  the 
polling  place  where  the  town  clerk  acts  as  clerk  of  the  election,  and 
the  votes  shall  be  canvassed  at  the  same  time  and  in  the  same  man- 
ner, and  return  thereof  made  the  same,  as  if  all  the  votes  had  been 
•cast  in  the  same  ballot  box.     When  more  than  one  voting  place 
shall  be  required  by  the  county  board,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
town  clerk  to  post  up,  in  three  of  the  most  public  places  in  the  town, 
a  notice  of  each  of  the  places  in  the  town  where  the  county  board 
have  directed  and  required  the  election  to  be  held :     Provided,  that 
in  towns  where  there  is  no  town  clerk,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
count}'  clerk  to  post  notices  of  election.     When  there  shall  be  more 
than  one  polling  place  in  a  town,  the  general  meeting  for  the  trans- 
action of  business  shall  be  held,  at  the  time  hereafter  mentioned,  at 
the  polling  place  where  the  town  clerk  acts  as  clerk  of  the  town 
•election,  and  in  towns  where  there  is  no  town  clerk,  at  such  places 
as  shall  be  designated  by  the  county  clerk. 

Genera/  election  Imvs  to  apply.]  §  8.  The  general  laws  of  the 
state  in  regard  to  elections  and  qualifications  of  voters  shall  apply  to 
iill  elections  to  be  held  under  this  act,  so  far  as  the  same  may  be 
applicable,  except  as  herein  otherwise  provided  :  Provided,  that  no 
registration  of  voters  shall  be  required- 

Result  of  election.  \  §  10.  The  canvass  being  completed,  a 
statement  of  the  result  shall  be  entered  at  length  by  the  clerk  of 
the  meeting  in  the  minutes  of  the  proceedings,  to  be  kept  by  him  as 
'before  required,  which  shall  be  publicly  read  by  him  to  the  meeting: 


46  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTI>. 

and  such  reading  shall  be  deemed  notice  of  the  result  of  the  elec- 
tion to  every  person  whose  name  shall  be  entered  on  the  poll  list 
as  a  voter. 

Tic  i'otc.\  §n.  In  case  two  or  more  persons  shall  have  an. 
equal  number  of  votes  for  the  same  office,  the  question  of  which 
shall  be  entitled  to  the  office  shall  be  decided  between  such  persons- 
by  lot,  under  the  direction  of  the  town  clerk,  but  he  shall  give  each 
party  notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  drawing  lots. 

Persons  elected  notificd.\  §  12.  The  clerk  of  every  town  meet- 
ing, within  ten  days  thereafter,  shall  transmit  to  each  person  elected 
to  any  town  office,  whose  name  shall  not  have  been  entered  on  the 
poll  list  as  a  voter,  a  notice  of  his  election. 

List  of  toic n  officers  fled  n'if/i  county  clerk. .]  §  13.  The  town 
clerk  shall  file  in  the  office  of  the  county  clerk  a  list  of  the  names 
of  all  town  officers  elected  at  the  annual  town  meeting,  within  twenty 
days  after  such  election  shall  be  held. 


ARTICLE   IX. 
Qualification  and   Tenure  of  Office. 

Eligible  to  officc.\  <§  i.  No  person  shall  be  eligible  to  any  town 
office  unless  he  shall  be  a  legal  voter,  and  have  been  one  year  a  res- 
ident of  such  town. 

Qualifying^  §  2.  Ever}'  person  elected  or  appointed  to  the 
office  of  supervisor,  town  clerk,  assessor,  commissioner  of  high- 
ways or  collector,  before  he  enters  upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  and 
within  ten  days  after  he  shall  be  notified  of  his  election  or  appoint- 
ment, shall  take  and  subscribe,  before  some  justice  of  the  peace,  or 
town  clerk,  the  oath  or  affirmation  of  office  prescribed  by  the  con- 
stitution, which  shall,  within  eight  days  thereafter,  be  filed  in  the 
office  of  the  town  clerk. 

Neglect  to  qnalify.\  §3.  If  any  person  elected  or  appointed 
to  either  of  the  offices  above  enumerated  shall  neglect  to  take  and 
subscribe  such  oath,  and  cause  the  certificate  to  be  filed  as  above 
required,  such  neglect  shall  be  deemed  a  refusal  to  serve. 

Collector  bond.\  §  5.  Every  person  elected  to  the  office  of 
collector,  before  he  enters  upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  shall  give 
the  bond  required  by  law. 


ELECTIONS.  47 

Failure  of  collector  to  give  bond.']  §  6.  If  any  person  elected 
to  the  office  of  collector  shall  not  give  such  security  and  take  such 
oath  as  is  required  above,  within  the  time  limited  for  that  purpose, 
such  neglect  shall  be  deemed  a  refusal  to  serve. 

Supervisor,  etc.,  refusing  to  serve.]  §7.  If  any  person  elected 
to  the  office  of  supervisor,  town  clerk,  assessor,  or  commissioner  of 
highways,  shall  refuse  to  serve,  he  shall  forfeit  to  the  town  the  sum 
of  $25. 

Entering  upon  office  before  taking  oathJ]  §  8.  If  any  town 
officer  who  is  required  by  law  to  take  the  oath  of  office  shall  enter 
upon  the  duties  of  his  office  before  he  shall  have  taken  such  oath, 
he  shall  forfeit  to  the  town  the  sum  of  $50. 

.  Term  of  office.\  §  9.  Town  officers,  except  as  otherwise  pro- 
vided, shall  hold  their  offices  for  one  year,  and  until  others  are 
elected  or  appointed  in  their  places  and  are  qualified. 

Successor  to  demand  books,  etc.]  §  TO.  Whenever  the  term  of 
any  supervisor,  town  clerk  or  commissioner  of  highways  shall 
expire,  and  other  persons  shall  be  elected  or  appointed  to  such 
office,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  successor,  immediately  after  he 
shall  have  entered  upon  the  duties  of  the  office,  to  demand  of  his 
predecessor  all  the  books  and  papers  under  his  control,  belonging  to 
such  office. 

Demand  in  case  of  vacancy. J  §  1 1 .  Whenever  either  of  the 
officers  above  named  shall  resign,  or  the  office  become  vacant  in  any 
way,  and  another  person  shall  be  elected  or  appointed  in  his  stead, 
the  person  so  elected  or  appointed  shall  make  such  demand  on  his 
predecessor,  or  of  any  person  having  charge  of  such  books  and 
papers. 

Out-going  officer  to  deliver  over.]  §  12.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of 
every  person  so  going  out  of  office,  whenever  thereto  required  pur- 
suant to  the  foregoing  provisions,  to  deliver  up,  on  oath,  all  the 
records,  books  and  papers  in  his  possession  or  in  his  control  be- 
longing to  the  office  held  by  him;  which  oath  may  be  administered 
by  the  officer  to  whom  such  delivery  shall  be  made.  It  shall  also 
be  the  duty  of  every  supervisor  and  commissioner  of  highways,  so 
going  out  of  office,  at  the  same  time  to  pay  over  to  such  successor 
the  balance  of  moneys  remaining  in  his  hands  as  ascertained  by  the 
auditors  of  town  accounts. 

Demand  of  executor,  etc.]  §  13.  Upon  the  death  of  any  of  the 
officers  enumerated,  the  successor  of  such  officer  shall  make  such 


48  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

demand  as  above  provided  of  the  executors  or  administrators  of 
such  deceased  officer;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  executors  or 
administrators  to  deliver  up,  on  the  like  oath,  all  records,  books  and 
papers  in  their  possession  or  under  their  control,  belonging  to  the 
office,  held  by  their  testator  or  intestate. 

AN  ACT  to  provide  for  the  time  of  opening  and  closing  the  polls  during  elections 
of  cities,  towns  and  villages  in  this  state.  [Approved  May  29,  1879.  In  force 
July  1,  1879.] 

Time  of  opening  and  closing  -polls.\  §  /.  Be  it  enacted  by  the 
People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  General  Assembly, 
That  in  all  city,  town,  or  village  elections  in  this  state,  the  polls 
shall  remain  open  from  eight  (8)  o'clock,  A.  M.,  until  seven  (7) 
o'clock,  P.  M.,  any  law  in  any  special  charter  to  the  contrary  not- 
withstanding. 

EVIDENCE. 

AN  ACT  in  regard  to  evidence  and  depositions  in  civil  cases.     [Approved  March 
29,  1872.     In  force  July  1,  1872.] 

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Records,  etc.,  of  cities,  etc. — ho-w  certified^  §  14.  The  papers, 
entries,  records  and  ordinances,  or  parts  thereof,  of  any  city,  village, 
town  or  county,  may  be  proved  by  a  copy  thereof,  certified  under 
the  hand  of  the  clerk  or  the  keeper  thereof,  and  the  corporate  seal, 
if  there  be  any;  if  not,  under  his  hand  and  private  seal. 


Form  of  certificate^  §  16.  The  certificate  of  any  such  clerk  of 
a  court,  city,  village,  town,  county,  or  secretary,  clerk,  cashier,  or 
other  keeper  of  any  such  papers,  entries,  records  or  ordinances,  shall 
contain  a  statement  that  such  person  is  the  keeper  of  the  same,  and 
if  there  is  no  seal,  shall  so  state. 


Sworn  copies.]  §  18.  Any  such  papers,  entries,  records  and 
ordinances,  may  be  proved  by  copies  examined  and  sworn  to  by 
credible  witnesses. 

Penalty.]  §  19.  If  any  such  officer,  clerk,  secretary,  cashier, 
justice  of  the  peace,  or  other  person  authorized  to  certify  copies  of 
any  papers,  entries,  records  or  ordinances,  shall  knowingly  make  a 
false  certificate,  he  shall  be  punishable  in  the  same  manner  as  if  he 
were  guilty  of  perjury. 


HOUSES  OF  ILL-FAME INSURANCE    COMPANIES.  49 

HOUSES    OF    ILL-FAME.  . 

AN  ACT  to  prevent  the  licensing  of  houses  of  ill-fame,  and  the  official  inspection 
or  medical  examination  of  the  inmates  thereof,  in  the  incorporated  cities,  towns 
and  villages  of  this  state.  [Approved  and  in  force  March  27,  1874.] 

Licensing  and  medical  inspection  forbidden^  §  i.  Be  it  enacted 
by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  General  As- 
sembly, That  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  the  corporate  authorities  of  any 
city,  town  or  village  in  this  state  to  grant  a  license  to  any  person, 
male  or  female,  to  keep  what  is  known  as  a  house  of  ill-fame  or 
house  of  prostitution.  And  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  board  of 
health  (or  any  member  or  employe  of  the  same)  now  existing,  or 
which  may  hereafter  exist  under  the  laws  of  this  state,  to  interfere 
in  the  management  of  any  house  of  ill-fame  or  house  of  prostitution, 
or  to  provide  in  any  manner  for  the  medical  inspection  or  examina- 
tion of  any  inmate  of  the  same. 

Emergency^  §  2.  Whereas,  the  legislative  authorities  of  cer- 
tain cities  in  this  state  are  about  to  license  houses  of  ill-fame,  there- 
fore an  emergency  exists  why  this  act  should  take  effect  immedi- 
ately: therefore,  this  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and 
after  its  passage. 


INSURANCE    COMPANIES. 

AN  ACT  to  incorporate  and  to  govern  fire,  marine  and  inland  navigation  insurance 
companies  doing  business  in  the  state  of  Illinois.  [Approved  March  11,  1869. 
In  force  July  1,  1869.] 


Tax  on  net  receipts.]  §  30.  Every  agent  of  any  insurance 
company,  incorporated  by  the  authority  of  any  other  state  or  gov- 
ernment, shall  return  to  the  proper  officer  of  the  county,  town  or 
municipality  in  which  the  agency  is  established,  in  the  month  of 
May,  annually,  the  amount  of  the  net  receipts  of  such  agency  for  the 
preceding  year,  which  shall  be  entered  on  the  tax  lists  of  the  county, 
town  and  municipality,  and  subject  to  the  same  rate  of  taxation,  for 
all  purposes — state,  county,  town  and  municipal— that  other  personal 
property  is  subject  to  at  the  place  where  located;  said  tax  to  be  in 
lieu  of  all  town  and  municipal  licenses;  and  all  laws  and  parts  of 
laws  inconsistent  herewith,  are  hereby  repealed:  Provided,  that  the 
provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  be  construed  to  prohibit  cities  hav- 
ing an  organized  fire  department  from  levying  a  tax,  or  license  fee, 
not  exceeding  two  per  cent.,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of 
their  respective  charters,  on  the  gross  receipts  of  such  agency,  to  be 


50  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

applied  exclusively  to  the  support  of  the  fire  department  of  such 
city.  [As  amended  by  act,  approved  May  31,  1879.  ^n  force  July 
i,  1879.] 


JURISDICTION    OF  JUSTICES. 

AN   ACT  to  provide  for  the  jurisdiction  of  justices  of  the  peace  in  civil  cases. 
[Approved  April  1,  1872.     In  force  July  1,  1872.] 

%$:y£3£3:3:%3:%: 

O'/v  ordinances^  §  14.  Justices  of  the  peace  shall  have  juris- 
diction in  all  cases  for  violation  of  the  ordinances  of  cities,  towns  or 
villages. 


MARKETING    PRODUCTS. 

AN  ACT  for  the  protection  of  farmers,  fruit  growers,  vine  growers  and  gardeners. 
[Approved  January  13,  1872.      In  force  July  1,  1872.] 

Farmer,  etc.,  may  sell  -products  without  license^  §  i.  Be  it 
enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the 
General  Assembly,  That  every  farmer,  fruit  and  vine  grower,  and 
gardener,  shall  have  an  undisputed  right  to  sell  the  produce  of  his 
farm,  orchard,  vineyard  and  garden  in  any  place  or  market  where 
such  articles  are  usually  sold,  and  in  any  quantity  he  may  think 
proper,  without  paying  any  state,  county  or  city  tax,  or  license,  for 
doing  so,  any  law,  city  or  town  ordinance  to  the  contrary  notwith- 
standing: Provided,  that  the  corporate  authorities  of  any  such  city, 
town  or  village  may  prohibit  the  obstruction  of  its  streets,  alleys  and 
public  places  for  any  such  purpose:  And  -provided,  further,  that 
nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  authorize  the  sale  of 
spirituous,  vinous  or  malt  liquors,  contrary  to  laws  which  now  are 
or  hereafter  may  be  in  force  prohibiting  the  sale  thereof. 


OFFICERS    OF    CITIES. 

AN  ACT  to  prevent  fraudulent  and  corrupt  practices  in  the  making  or  accepting  of 
official  appointments  and  contracts  by  public  officers.  [Approved  April  9,  1872. 
In  force  July  1,  1872.] 


Aldermen  of  cities — trustees  of  villages.  ]  §  2.  That  it  shall  be 
and  is  hereby  declared  unlawful  for  any  alderman  of  any  city,  or 
member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  anv  village  of  this  state,  during 
the  term  of  office  for  which  he  is  elected,  to  accept  or  be  appointed 


OFFICERS    OF    CITIES-  -  RESIGNATION    AND    VACANCIES.  51 

to  or  hold  any  office,  by  the  appointment  of  the  mayor  or  president 
of  the  board  of  trustees  thereof;  and  any  and  all  such  election  or 
appointment  shall  be  absolutely  null  and  void. 

Not  to  be  interested  in  contracts — not  to  act  as  attorney  to  procure 
--bribery.]  §  3.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person,  now  or 
hereafter  holding  any  office,  either  by  election  or  appointment,  under 
the  constitution  of  tljis  state,  to  become  in  any  manner  interested,' 
either  directly  or  indirectly,  in  his  own  name  or  in  the  name  of  any 
other  person  or  corporation,  in  any  contract,  or  the  performance  of 
any  work  in  the  making  or  letting  of  which  such  officer  may  be 
called  upon  to  act  or  vote.  And  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  such 
officer  to  represent,  either  as  agent  or  otherwise,  any  person,  com- 
pany or  corporation,  in  respect  of  any  application  or  bid  for  any 
contract  or  work  in  regard  to  which  such  officer  may  be  called  upon 
to  vote.  Nor  shall  any  such  officer  take  or  receive,  or  offer  to  take 
or  receive,  either  directly  or  indirectly,  any  money  or  other  thing  of 
value,  as  a  gift  or  bribe,  or  a  means  of  influencing  his  vote  or  action 
in  his  official  character;  and  any  and  all  contracts  made  and  pro- 
cured in  violation  hereof,  shall  be  null  and  void. 

Penalty.^  §  4.  Any  alderman,  member  of  a  board  of  trustees, 
supervisor  or  county  commissioner,  or  person  now  or  hereafter 
holding  any  office,  either  by  election  or  appointment  under  the  con- 
stitution of  this  state,  or  any  law  now  or  hereafter  in  force  in  this 
state,  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  the  preceding 
sections,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  on  convic- 
tion thereof  may  be  punished  by  confinement  in  the  penitentiary  for 
a  term  not  less  than  one  year  nor  more  than  five  years  or  fined  in  a 
sum  not  less  than  $200  nor  more  than  $1,000,  or  both,  in  the  dis- 
cretion of  the  court  before  which  such  conviction  shall  be  had;  and 
in  addition  thereto,  any  office  or  official  position  held  by  any  person 
or  persons  so  convicted  shall,  by  the  fact  of  such  conviction,  become 
vacant,  and  shall  be  so  declared  as  part  of  the  judgment  of  court; 
and  the  person  or  persons  so  convicted  shall  be  disqualified  from 
holding  any  office  or  position  of  trust  and  confidence  in  this  state 
for  the  period  of  two  years  from  and  after  the  date  of  such  con- 
viction. 


OFFICERS RESIGNATIONS    AND    VACANCIES. 

AN  ACT  in  regard  to  elections,  and  to  provide  for  filling  vacancies  in  elective  offi- 
ces.    [Approved  April  3,  1872.     In  force  July  1,  1872.] 
********* 

Of  elective  officers.}     §  124.     Resignations  of  elective  officers  shall 
be  made  to  the  officer,  court  or  county  board  authorized  by  law  to 
5 


52  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

fill  a  vacancy  in   such  office  by  appointment,  or  to  order  an  election 
to  fill  such  vacancy. 

When  office  becomes  vacant.}  §  125.  Every  elective  office  shall 
become  vacant  on  the  happening  of  either  of  the  following  events, 
before  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  such  office: 

first — The  death  of  the  incumbent. 

Second — His  resignation. 

Third — His  becoming  insane. 

fourth—  His  ceasing  to  be  an  inhabitant  of  the  state;  or, if  the 
office  is  local,  his  ceasing  to  be  an  inhabitant  of  the  district,  county, 
town  or  precinct  for  which  he  was  elected. 

fifth — His  conviction  of  an  infamous  crime,  or  of  any  offense 
involving  a  violation  of  official  oath. 

Sixth — His  removal  from  office. 

Seventh — His  refusal  or  neglect  to  take  his  oath  of  office,  or  to 
give  or  renew  his  official  bond,  or  to  deposit  or  file  such  oath  or  bond 
within  the  time  prescribed  by  law. 

Eighth — The  decision  of  a  competent  tribunal  declaring  his 
election  void. 

Who  may  determine  when  vacancy  exists.}  §  126.  Whenever  it 
is  alleged  that  a  vacancy  in  any  office  exists,  the  officer,  court,  or 
county  board,  whose  duty  it  is  to  fill  the  vacancy  by  appointment, 
or  to  order  an  election  to  fill  such  vacancy,  shall  have  power  to  de- 
termine whether  or  not  the  facts  occasioning  such  vacancy  exist. 


OIL    INSPECTION. 

AN  ACT  to  revise  the  law  in  relation  to  oil   inspection.     [Approved   March   12, 
1874.     In  force  July  1,  1874.] 

Appointment  of  inspectors — term  of  office — deputies^  §  i .  Be  it 
enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly,  That  the  mayor  of  any  city,  with  the  approval  of  the 
city  council,  and  the  board  of  trustees  of  any  village  or  town  may, 
and  on  the  petition  of  any  five  inhabitants  thereof,  shall  appoint  one 
or  more  inspectors  for  the  inspection  of  coal  oil,  naphtha,  gasoline, 
benzine  and  other  mineral  oils  or  fluids,  the  product  of  petroleum, 
and  fix  their  compensation,  to  be  paid  by  the  party  requiring  their 
services.  Every  such  inspector  shall  hold  his  office  for  one  year  and 
until  his  successor  is  appointed  and  qualified,  unless  sooner  removed 
from  office.  He  may  appoint  deputies,  for  whom  he  shall  be  respon- 
sible, and  who  shall  take  the  same  oath  and  be  liable  to  the  same 
penalties  as  the  inspector. 


OIL    INSPECTION.  53 

Oath — bond— suit  on.\  §  2.  Every  such  inspector, before  enter- 
ing upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  shall  take  and  subscribe  the  follow- 
ing oath: 

I  do  solemnly  swear  (or  affirm,  as  the  case  may  be)  that  I  will  support  the  con- 
stitution of  the  United  States,  and  the  constitution  of  the  state  of  Illinois,  and  that 
I  will  faithfully  discharge  the  duties  of  the  office  of  oil  inspector,  according  to  the 
best  of  my  ability. 

He  shall  also  execute  a  bond  payable  to  the  people  of  the  state, 
in  such  sum  as  shall  be  required  by  the  city  council  or  board  of 
trustees,  with  one  or  more  sureties,  to  be  approved  by  the  mayor  or 
president  of  the  board  of  trustees,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  dis- 
charge of  the  duties  of  his  office.  Any  person  aggrieved  by  the 
misconduct  or  neglect  of  such  inspector  may  maintain  suit  thereon 
for  his  own  use. 

Inspector  to  test.]  §  3.  Upon  the  application  of  any  manufactu- 
rer, refiner  or  producer  of,  or  any  dealer  in,  any  such  oil  or  fluid,  or 
of  any  officer  or  person  to  test  any  such  oil  or  fluid,  such  inspector 
shall  test  the  same  with  all  reasonable  dispatch  by  applying  the 
fire  test,  as  indicated  and  determined  by  J.  Tagliabue's  pyrometer, 
or  some  other  instrument  or  means  equally  accurate,  with  which  he 
shall  have  provided  himself  at  his  own  expense. 

Test — casks  marked — inspector  not  to  trade  in  oil.]  §  4.  If  the 
oils  or  fluids  so  tested  will  not  ignite  or  explode*  at  a  temperature 
less  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  degrees  Fahrenheit,  the  inspector 
shall  mark,  plainly  and  indelibly,  on  each  cask,  barrel  or  package 
"  Approved,  fire  test  being.  .  .  . ;"  but  if  said  oils  or  fluids  will  ignite 
at  a  temperature  less  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  degrees  Fahrenheit, 
as  aforesaid,  then  the  inspector  shall  mark  on  each  cask,  barrel  or 
package  "Condemned  for  illuminating  purposes;  fire-test  being 

"     Said  inspector,  while  in  office,  shall  not  buy,  sell,  bargain 

or  trade,  directly  or  indirectly,  in  any  of  the  said  oils  or  fluids. 

Record  kept,  and  open  to  examination.]  §  5.  He  shall  also,  within 
twenty-four  hours  after  making  any  inspection,  make  a  full  and  fair 
entry  thereof  in  a  record  book  to  be  kept  for  that  purpose,  which 
shall  be  open  to  all  persons  wishing  to  examine  the  same. 

Penalty  for  misconduct  in  office]  §  6.  Any  such  inspector 
or  deputy  who  shall  falsely  brand  any  package,  cask  or  barrel,  or 
be  guilty  of  any  fraud,  deceit,  misconduct  or  culpable  negligence 
in  the  performance  of  any  of  his  official  duties,  shall  be  fined  not 
exceeding  $200,  and  be  liable  to  the  party  injured  for  all  damages 
occasioned  thereby. 


54 


MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 


Penalty  for  neglect  to  give  notice  of,  or  selling  oil  not  inspected— 
counterfeit  brands,  etc.]  §  7.  Any  manufacturer,  refiner  or 
producer  of,  or  any  dealer  in  coal  oil,  naphtha,  gasoline,  benzine, 
or  other  mineral  oil  or  fluid,  the  product  of  petroleum,  in  any  city, 
village  or  town  in  which  such  inspector  is  appointed,  who  shall 
neglect  to  give  notice  to  such  inspector,  of  any  such  oil  or  fluid  in 
his  possession  not  already  inspected  by  some  authorized  inspector  of 
this  state,  within  two  days  after  the  same  is  made  or  refined  by  him 
or  received  into  his  possession,  or  shall  offer  any  such  oil  or  fluid  for 
sale  before  the  same  has  been  so  inspected,  or  shall  sell  or  attempt 
to  sell  to  any  person,  for  illuminating  purposes,  any  such  oil  which 
is  below  the  approved  standard — that  is,  having  igniting  point  less 
than  one  hundred  and  fifty  degrees  Fahrenheit,  as  indicated  and 
determined  in  the  manner  herein  provided,  or  shall  use  any  package, 
cask,  barrel  or  other  thing  having  the  inspection  brand  thereon,  the 
oil  or  fluid  therein  not  having  been  inspected,  or  shall  counterfeit 
any  brand,  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  $200,  and  be  liable  to  the 
party  injured  for  all  damages  occasioned  thereby,  and  all  the  casks, 
barrels  or  packages  so  falsely  used,  and  their  contents,  shall  be  for- 
feited, and  may  be  seized  and  sold. 

Fines,  hoiv  recovered  and  disposed  of]  §  8.  The  fines  herein 
provided  may  be  recovered  in  the  name  of  the  people  of  the  state 
of  Illinois,  before  any  justice  of  the  peace  of  the  county  where  the 
offense  is  committed,  and  when  collected,  one-half  shall  be  paid  to 
the  informer,  and  the  other  half  and  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  of 
all  casks,  barrels  and  packages,  and  the  contents  thereof  seized, 
as  herein  provided,  shall  be  paid  into  the  city,  village  or  town 
treaury. 


ORDINANCES PUNISHMENT    FOR    VIOLATION    OF. 

AN  ACT  to  provide  for  the  punishment  of  persons  violating  any  of  the  ordinances 
of  the  several  cities  and  villages  in  this  state.  [Approved  and  in  force  April  12, 
1879.] 

Arrest — imprisonment — workhouse.]  §  i.  Be  it  enacted  by  the 
People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  General  Assem- 
bly, That  in  all  actions  for  the  violation  of  any  ordinance  of  any 
city  or  village  organized  under  any  general  or  special  law  of  this 
state,  the  first  process  shall  be  a  summons:  Provided,  howev er,  that 
a  warrant  for  the  arrest  of  the  offender  may  issue  in  the  first  in- 
stance, upon  the  affidavit  of  any  person  that  any  such  ordinance  has 
been  violated,  and  that  the  person  making  the  complaint  has  reason- 
able grounds  to  believe  the  party  charged  is  guilty  thereof;  and 


ORDINANCES  -  PLATS.  55 

any  person  arrested  upon  such  warrant,  shall,  without  unnecessary 
delay  be  taken  before  the  proper  officer,  to  be  tried  for  the  alleged 
offense.  Any  person  upon  whom  any  fine  or  penalty  shall  be 
imposed  may,  upon  the  order  of  the  court  or  magistrate  before 
whom  the  conviction  is  had,  be  committed  to  the  county  jail  or  the 
calaboose,  city  prison,  work-house,  house  of  correction,  or  other 
place  provided  by  such  cities  or  villages  by  ordinance  for  the  incar- 
ceration of  such  offenders  until  such  fine,  penalty,  and  cost  shall  be 
fully  paid:  Provided,  that  no  such  imprisonment  shall  exceed  six 
months  for  any  one  offense.  The  city  council  or  board  of  trustees 
of  any  such  cities  or  villages  shall  have  power  to  provide  by  ordi- 
nance that  every  person  so  committed  shall  be  required  to  work  at 
such  labor  as  his  or  her  strength  will  permit,  within  and  without 
such  prison,  work-house,  house  of  correction  or  other  place  provided 
for  the  incarceration  of  such  offenders,  not  to  exceed  ten  hours  each 
working  day;  and  for  such  work  the  person  so  employed,  or 
worked,  shall  be  allowed,  exclusive  of  his  or  her  board,  the  sum  of 
fifty  cents  for  each  day's  work  on  account  of  such  fine  and  costs. 


l^     §  2.     All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent   with   the 
foregoing  section  are  hereby  repealed. 

Emergency.  \  §  3.  Whereas,  In  some  of  the  cities  and  villages 
in  this  state,  there  is  no  authority  for  the  imprisonment  of  offenders 
in  workhouses  or  houses  of  correction,  and  requiring  such  offenders 
to  work,  therefore,  an  emergency  is  declared  to  exist,  and  this  act 
shall  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 


PLATS    TO    BE    RECORDED,    ETC. 

AN   ACT  to  revise  the  law  in  relation  to  plats.      [Approved  March  21,  1874. 
In  force  July  1,  1874.] 


Plats  of  highways  etc.,  to  be  made  and  recorded^  §  9.  Whenever 
any  highway,  road,  street,  alley,  public  ground,  toll-road,  railroad 
or  canal  ie  laid  out,  located,  opened,  widened  or  extended,  or  the 
location  thereof  altered,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  commissioners, 
authorities,  officers,  persons  or  corporations,  public  or  private,  lay- 
ing out,  locating,  opening,  widening,  extending  or  altering  the 
same,  to  cause  a  plat  thereof  showing  the  width,  courses  and  ex- 
tent thereof,  and  making  such  reference  to  known  and  established 
corners  or  monuments,  that  the  location  thereof  may  be  ascertained, 
to  be  made,  and  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  recorder  of  the  county 


56  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

in  which  the  premises  taken  or  used  for  the  same,  or  any  part 
thereof,  are  situated,  within  six  months  after  such  highway,  road, 
street,  alley,  public  ground,  toll-road,  rail-road  or  canal  is  laid  out, 
located,  opened,  widened  or  extended,  or  the  location  thereof 
altered;  and  when  any  highway,  road,  street,  alley,  public  ground, 
toll-road,  railroad  or  canal  is  vacated,  the  order,  ordinance  or  other 
declaration  vacating  the  same  shall  be  in  like  manner  recorded. 
This  act  shall  not  be  construed  to  alter  or  affect  any  law  specifically 
providing  for  the  recording  of  any  such  plat,  or  to  require  the  same 
to  be  recorded  sooner  than  is  so  specifically  provided;  except  that 
any  requirements  to  record  such  plat  in  any  other  place  than  is  pro- 
vided herein  shall  not  excuse  the  parties  from  complying  with  this 
act.  Whoever  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  comply  with  this  section 
shall  forfeit  $25,  and  the  like  sum  for  every  month  he  shall  con- 
tinue in  such  refusal  or  neglect  after  conviction  therefor,  to  be 
recovered  before  any  justice  of  the  peace  of  the  county,  in  the  name 
of  the  county,  one-half  to  the  use  of  the  county  and  the  other  half 
to  the  use  of  the  person  complaining. 


POLICE     MAGISTRATES. 

AN  ACT  to  authorize  the  election  of  police  magistrates  in  towns,  cities  and  vil- 
lages where  the  same  are  not  now  provided  for  bv  law.  [Approved  and  in  force 
April  13,  1875.] 

Election  and  term  of  office  —  -jurisdiction^  §  i.  Be  it  enacted  by 
the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  General  As- 
sembly, That  all  towns,  cities  and  villages  in  the  state  which  have 
been  incorporated  under  charters  granted  by  special  acts,  or  under 
a  general  act,  when  the  law  under  which  they  are  incorporated  does 
not  authorize  the  election  of  a  police  magistrate,  be  and  they  are 
hereby  authorized  to  elect  one  police  magistrate  at  the  first  annual 
election  of  town,  city  or  village  officers  that  shall  occur  after  the 
passage  of  this  act,  and  quadrennially  thereafter.  Such  police  mag- 
istrates shall  hold  their  offices  for  the  same  term,  be  commissioned 
and  qualified,  and  have  the  same  jurisdiction  and  fees,  as  police 
magistrates  of  villages  have  under  the  general  law  for  the  incorpo- 
ration of  cities  and  villages. 


§  2.  As  the  first  annual  election  of  town,  city 
and  village  officers  in  many  of  the  towns,  cities  and  villages  in  this 
state  by  this  act  authorized  to  elect  a  police  magistrate,  will  occur 
before  the  first  day  of  July  next,  after  the  adjournment  of  this  gen- 
eral assembly;  therefore  an  emergency  exists  requiring  this  act  to 
take  effect  immediately,  therefore  this  act  shall  take  effect  and  be 


PUBLIC    BUILDINGS RAILROADS.  57 

in  force  from  and  after  its  passage:  Provided,  that  the  election  for 
police  magistrates  in  cities  that  have  one  or  more  police  magistrates, 
elected  under  a  former  organization  as  a  town  or  city,  shall  not  be 
held  until  the  term  for  which  said  police  magistrate  or  magistrates 
were  elected  has  expired. 


PUBLIC    BUILDINGS. 

AN  ACT  to  regulate  the  means  of  egress   from    public  buildings.      [Approved 
March  28,  1874.     In  force  July  1,  1874.] 

Doors  to  open  outward^  §  i.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of 
the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That  all 
public  buildings  now  in  process  of  construction,  or  hereafter  to  be 
built  or  constructed,  which  may  or  shall  be  used  for  churches, 
school  houses,  operas,  theatres,  lecture  rooms,  hotels,  public  meet- 
ings, town  halls,  or  which  may  or  shall  be  used  for  any  purpose 
whereby  a  collection  of  people  may  be  assembled  together  for  relig- 
ious worship,  amusement  or  instruction,  shall  be  so  built  and  con- 
structed; that  all  doors  leading  from  the  main  hall  or  place  where 
said  collection  of  people  may  be  assembled,  or  from  the  principal 
room  which  may  be  used  for  any  of  the  purposes  aforesaid,  shall  be 
so  swung  upon  their  hinges  and  constructed  that  such  doors  shall 
open  outward ;  and  that  all  means  of  egress  for  the  public  from  the 
main  hall  or  principal  room,  and  from  the  building,  shall  be  by  means 
of  doors  which  shall  open  outwards  from  the  main  hall  or  building. 

Penalty^  §  2.  That  any  person  or  persons  who  shall  fail  or 
refuse  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  be  fined  in  any 
sum  not  less  than  $100,  nor  more  than  $1,000. 

When  public  buildings  may  be  closed.]  §  3.  That  in  all  cities 
and  towns  having  a  population  of  two  thousand  inhabitants,  and 
upwards,  the  mayor,  or  other  corporate  authorities  of  said  town  or 
city,  shall  be  empowered  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  close  and 
prohibit  all  public  buildings,  hereafter  erected,  from  being  used  in 
violation  of  this  act. 


RAILROADS. 

AN  ACT  in  relation  to   fencing  and  operating  railroads.     [Approved   March  31, 
1874.     In  force  July  1,  1874.] 

Speed   through   cities,   etc. — damages^      §    24.     Whenever    any 
railroad  corporation  shall  by  itself  or  agents,  run  any  train,  locomo- 


58  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

live  engine,  or  car,  at  a  greater  rate  of  speed  in  or  through  the  in- 
corporated limits  of  any  city,  town  or  village,  than  is  permitted  by 
any  ordinance  of  such  city,  town  or  village,  such  corporation  shall 
be  liable  to  the  person  aggrieved  for  all  damages  done  the  person  or 
property  by  such  train,  locomotive  engine  or  car  ;  and  the  same 
shall  be  presumed  to  have  been  done  by  the  negligence  of  said  cor- 
poration or  their  agents  ;  and  in  addition  to  such  penalties  as  may  be 
provided  by  such  city,  town  or  village,  the  person  aggrieved  by  the 
violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  section,  shall  have  an  ac- 
tion against  such  corporation,  so  violating  any  of  the  provisions  to 
recover  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  one  hundred  dollars  ($100),  nor 
more  than  two  hundred  ($200),  to  be  recovered  in  any  court  of  com- 
petent jurisdiction ;  said  action  to  be  an  action  of  debt,  in  the  name 
of  the  people  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  for  the  use  of  the  person  ag- 
grieved, but  the  court  or  jury  trying  the  case  may  reduce  said  pen- 
alty to  any  sum,  not  less,  however,  than  fifty  dollars  ($50),  where 
the  offense  committed  by  such  violation  may  appear  not  to  be  mali- 
cious or  willful:  Provided,  that  no  such  ordinance  shall  limit  the 
rate  of  speed,  in  case  of  passenger  trains,  to  less  than  ten  miles  per 
hour,  nor  in  any  other  case  to  less  than  six  miles  per  hour. 


Flagmen — shelter^  §  35.  In  all  cases  where  the  public  author- 
ities having  charge  of  any  street  over  which  there  shall  be  a  rail- 
road crossing,  shall  notify  any  agent  of  the  corporation  owning, 
using  or  operating  such  railroad,  that  a  flagman  is  necessary  at  such 
crossing,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  railroad  company,  within  sixty 
days  thereafter,  to  place  and  retain  a  flagman  at  such  crossing,  who 
shall  perform  the  duties  usually  required  of  flagmen ;  and  such  flag- 
man is  hereby  empowered  to  stop  any  and  all  persons  from  crossing 
a  railroad  track,  when,  in  his  opinion,  there  is  danger  from  approach- 
ing trains  or  locomotive  engines;  and  any  railroad  company  refus- 
ing or  neglecting  to  place  flagmen,  as  required  by  this  section,  shall 
be  liable  to  a  fine  of  $100  per  day  for  every  day  they  shall  neglect 
or  refuse  to  do  so;  and  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  such  public 
authorities  having  charge  of  such  street,  to  enforce  the  payment  of 
such  fine,  by  suit,  in  the  name  of  the  town  or  municipal  corporation 
wherein  such  crossing  shall  be  situate,  before  any  court  of  compe- 
tent jurisdiction  in  the  county,  and  the  prosecuting  attorney  shall 
attend  to  the  prosecution  of  all  suits  as  directed  by  said  public 
authorities.  All  the  moneys  collected  under  the  provisions  of  this 
act  shall  be  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the  town  or  municipal  corpora- 
tion in  whose  name  such  suits  shall  have  been  brought :  Provided, 
that  when  any  railroad  company  is  required  to  keep  a  flagman  at  a 
crossing,  it  shall  have  the  right  to  erect  and  maintain  in  the  highway 


REGISTRATION.  59 

or  street  crossed,  a  suitable  house  for  the  shelter  of  such  flagman, 
the  same  to  be  so  located  as  to  create  the  least  obstruction  to  the 
use  of  such  street  or  highway,  and  afford  the  best  view  of  the  rail- 
road track  in  each  direction  from  such  crossing. 


REGISTRATION    OF    ELECTORS. 

AN  ACT  for  the  registry  of  electors  and  to  prevent  fraudulent  voting.     [Approved 
and  in  force  Februrary  15, 1805.] 

Board  of  registration — meeting — register?^  §  i .  Be  it  enacted 
by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  General 
Assembly, •  That  the  persons  authorized  by  law,  or  appointed  pur- 
suant to  any  town  or  city  ordinance,  to  act  as  judges  or  inspectors 
of  elections  in  any  town,  city  or  ward,  or  other  election  district  or 
precinct  in  this  state,  shall  constitute  a  "  Board  of  Registry "  for 
their  respective  towns,  cities,  wards,  districts  or  precincts,  and  shall 
meet  on  Tuesday,  three  weeks  preceding  any  state  election,  at  nine 
o'clock  A.  M.,  and  proceed  to  make  a  list,  as  hereinafter  prescribed, 
of  all  persons  qualified  and  entitled  to  vote  at  the  ensuing  election, 
in  the  election  district  of  which  they  are  judges  or  inspectors;  which 
list,  when  completed,  shall  constitute  and  be  known  as  the  "  Register" 
of  electors  of  said  election  district.  In  election  districts  in  towns 
which  lie  wholly  within  he  limits  of  an  incorporated  city,  a  register 
of  electors  shall  be  made  for  all  elections,  whether  general,  special, 
local  or  municipal,  in  the  same  manner  as  herein  provided  in  the 
ca>e  of  state  elections. 

Manner  of  making  register,  etc. — first  meeting^  §  2.  Said 
registers  shall  each  contain  a  list  of  the  persons  so  qualified  and 
entitled  to  vote  in  said  election  district,  alphabetically  arranged, 
according  to  their  respective  surnames,  so  as  to  show,  in  one  column, 
the  name  in  full  length,  and  in  another  column,  in  cities,  the  resi- 
dence, by  the  number  of  the  dwelling,  if  there  be  a  number,  and 
the  name  of  the  street  or  other  location  of  the  dwelling  place  of  each 
person.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  board  to  enter  in  said  lists  the 
names  of  all  persons  residing  in  their  election  district,  whose  name 
appears  on  the  poll  list  kept  in  said  district  at  the  last  preceding 
election — in  cities  the  number  of  the  dwelling  and  the  name  of  the 
street  or  other  location,  if  the  same  shall  be  known  to  or  can  be  as- 
certained by  such  board — and  for  this  purpose  said  board  are 
authorized  to  take  from  the  office  in  which  they  are  filed  the  poll 
lists  made  and  filed  by  the  judges  or  inspectors  of  such  district,  at 
the  election  held  next  prior  to  the  making  of  such  register.  In 


60  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

making  said  list  the  board  shall  enter  thereon,  in  addition  to  the 
names  on  the  poll  list,  the  names  of  all  other  persons  who  are  well 
known  to  them  to  be  electors  in  said  district;  and  the  names  of  all 
persons  on  the  poll  list  who  have  died  or  removed  from  the  dis- 
trict shall  be  omitted  from  the  register.  The  said  board  shall 
complete,  as  far  as  practicable,  the  said  register  on  the  day  of 
their  meeting,  aforesaid,  and  shall  make  two  copies  thereof,  and 
certify  the  register  and  each  of  the  copies  to  be  a  true  list  of 
the  voters  in  their  district,  so  far  as  the  same  are  known.  Within 
two  days  thereafter,  the  said  original  list,  together  with  the  list 
taken  from  the  office,  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  filed  by  said  board 
in  the  office  of  the  town  clerk  of  the  town  in  which  said  election 
district  may  be;  but  in  counties  not  adopting  township  organi- 
zation, said  list  shall  be  filed  with  the  judges  or  inspectors  of 
election  of  the  proper  district,  or  if  such  election  district  is  in 
a  city,  then  it  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  city  clerk  of  said 
city.  And  one  copy  of  said  list  shall  be  kept  by  one  of  said 
judges  or  inspectors,  and  carefully  preserved  by  him  for  their  use 
on  the  day  or  days  hereinafter  mentioned,  for  the  revision  and  cor- 
rection of  the  same.  One  copy  of  said  list  shall,  immediately  after 
its  completion,  be  posted  in  some  conspicuous  place  where  the  last 
preceding  election  in  said  district  was  held,  and  be  accessible  to  any 
elector  who  may  desire  to  examine  the  same  or  make  copies  thereof. 
Any  person  who  shall  take  down,  tear  down,  or  deface  any  list,  so 
posted,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  misdemeanor,  and  shall  be  pun- 
ished by  a  fine  of  $50,  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  county  jail  for  the 
term  of  sixty  days,  or  by  both  fine  and  imprisonment. 

JVezu  election  districts.^  §  3.  In  case  a  new  election  district 
shall  be  formed  by  the  organization  of  a  new  town,  or  by  the  di- 
vision of  any  town  or  ward,  or  the  incorporation  of  a  city  or  town, 
the  judges  or  inspectors  of  the  election  in  the  new  district  thus 
formed,  may  make  their  registry  of  electors  on  the  day  prescribed 
by  this  act,  in  such  manner  as  a  majority  of  them  may  direct,  and 
for  that  purpose  may  make  a  list,  or  cause  to  be  made  a  certified 
copy  of  the  poll  list  or  lists  of  the  district  in  which  such  new  dis- 
trict is  situated,  or  they  may  dispense  with  such  list  or  lists,  and 
proceed  to  make  a  register  of  electors,  from  the  best  means  at  their 
command.  Said  lists  shall  only  embrace  the  names  of  such  persons 
as  are  known  to  them  to  be  electors  in  their  district,  and  shall  be 
posted  up,  and  copies  thereof  made,  as  prescribed  in  the  preceding 
section,  and  shall  be  corrected  in  the  same  manner  that  other  lists 
are  corrected. 

Revision  register — second  meeting,^  §  4.  The  said  board  shall 
again  meet  on  Tuesday  of  the  week  preceding  the  said  elections, 


REGISTRATION.  6 1 

in  their  respective  election  districts,  at  the  place  designated  for  hold- 
ing the  polls  of  the  election,  for  the  purpose  of  revising,  correcting 
and  completing  said  lists:  and  for  this  purpose,  in  cities,  they  shall 
meet  at  eight  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  remain  in  session  until 
nine  o'clock  p.  M.,  and  in  other  districts  they  shall  meet  at  nine 
o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  remain  in  session  until  four  o'clock 

P.  M. 

Proceedings  open — corrections,  etcJ\  §  5.  The  proceedings  of 
said  board  shall  be  open,  and  all  persons  residing  and  entitled  to 
vote  in  said  district  shall  be  entitled  to  be  heard  by  said  board  in 
relation  to  corrections  or  additions  to  said  register.  One  of  the  lists 
so  kept  by  the  judges  or  inspectors  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  used  by 
them,  on  the  day  or  days  of  making  corrections  or  additions,  for  the 
purpose  of  completing  the  registry  for  such  district. 

Revising"  register- — addition  of  new  names.^  §  6.  It  shall  be  the 
duty  of  said  board,  at  their  meeting  for  revising  and  correcting  said 
lists,  to  erase  therefrom  the  name  of  any  person  inserted  therein,  who 
shall  be  proved  by  the  oath  of  two  legal  voters  of  said  district,  to 
the  satisfaction  of  said  board,  to  be  non-resident  of  said  district,  or 
otherwise  not  entitled  to  vote  in  said  district,  at  the  election  then 
next  to  be  held.  Any  elector,  residing  in  said  district,  and  entitled 
to  vote  therein,  may  appear  before  said  board,  and  require  his  name 
to  be  recorded  on  said  alphabetical  list.  Any  person  so  requiring 
his  name  to  be  so  entered  on  said  lists,  shall  make  the  same  state- 
ment as  to  the  street  and  number  thereof,  and  where  he  resides, 
required  by  the  provisions  of  this  act  of  persons  offering  their  votes 
at  elections,  and  shall  be  -subject  to  the  same  penalties  for  refusing 
to  give  such  information,  or  for  falsely  giving  the  same,  and  shall 
also  be  subject  to  challenge,  either  by  the  judges  or  inspectors  or 
either  of  them,  or  by  any  other  elector,  whose  name  appears  on  said 
alphabetical  list;  and  the  same  oaths  may  be  administered  by  the 
judges  or  inspectors  as  now  provided  in  case  of  persons  offering  to 
vote  at  an  election;  and  in  case  no  challenge  is  made  of  any  person 
requiring  his  name  to  be  entered  on  said  alphabetical  list,  or  in  case 
of  challenge,  if  such  person  shall  make  oath  that  would  entitle  him 
to  vote  in  case  of  challenge  at  an  election,  then  the  name  of  any 
such  person  shall  be  added  to  the  alphabetical  poll  list  of  the  last 
preceding  year. 

Copies  of  register — -filing — deliver  to  judges — voting — swearing 
in  vote,  etc.~\  §*!•  After  said  lists  shall  have  been  fully  completed, 
the  said  board  shall,  within  three  days  thereafter,  cause  two  copies 
of  the  same  to  be  made,  each  of  which  shall  be  certified  by  them  to 
be  a  correct  list  of  the  voters  of  their  district;  one  of  which  shall  be 


62  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

filed  in  the  office  of  the  town  clerk  of  towns,  and  in  the  office  of  city 
clerks  of  cities;  and  one  of  which  copies  shall  be  delivered  to  said 
judges  or  inspectors.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  judges  or  in- 
spectors so  receiving  such  list,  carefully  to  preserve  the  said  list  for 
their  use  on  election  day,  and  to  designate  two  of  their  number,  at 
the  opening  of  the  polls,  to  check  the  name  of  every  voter  voting  in 
such  district  whose  name  is  on  the  register.  No  vote  shall  be 
received  at  any  state  election  in  this  state,  if  the  name  of  the  person 
offering  to  vote  be  not  on  the  said  register  made  on  the  Tuesday 
preceding  the  election,  unless  the  person  offering  to  vote  shall  furnish 
to  the  judges  of  the  election  his  affidavit,  in  writing,  stating  therein 
that  he  is  an  inhabitant  of  said  district,  and  entitled  to  vote  therein  at 
such  election,  and  prove  by  the  oath  of  a  householder  and  registered 
voter  of  the  district  in  which  he  offers  to  vote,  that  he  knows  such 
person  to  be  an  inhabitant  of  the  district,  and  if  in  any  city,  giving 
the  residence  of  such  person  within  said  district.  The  oath  may  be 
administered  by  one  of  the  judges  or  inspectors  of  the  election,  at 
the  poll  where  the  vote  shall  be  offered,  or  by  any  other  person  au- 
thorized to  administer  oaths,  but  no  person  shall  be  authorized  to 
receive  compensation  for  administering  the  oath.  Said  oath  shall  be 
preserved,  and  filed  in  the  office  of  the  town  or  city  clerk,  or  in  case 
there  be  no  clerk,  then  said  oath  shall  be  filed  with  and  preserved 
by  the  judges  or  inspectors  of  the  proper  district.  Any  person  may 
be  challenged,  and  the  same  oaths  shall  be  put  as  now  are  or  here- 
after may  be  prescribed  by  law. 

Entry  on  register  by  clerks  —  non-registered  voter  —  penalty^} 
§  8.  The  clerks  at  each  poll,  in  addition  to  the  duties  now  prescribed 
by  law,  shall  enter  on  the  poll  list  kept  by  them,  in  columns  prepared 
for  that  purpose,  opposite  the  name  of  each  person  voting,  the  same 
statement  or  minute  as  hereinbefore  required  of  the  board  in  making 
the  registry;  but  such  entry  is  not  to  be  made  by  them  if  the  regis- 
try .contains  correctly  the  name  and  residence  of  such  voter;  and  in 
all  cases  said  clerk  shall  enter  in  a  column  opposite  the  name  of  each 
person  not  registered,  the  words  "  not  registered."  In  cities,  every 
elector,  at  the  time  of  offering  his  vote,  shall  truly  state  the  street  in 
which  he  resides,  and  if  the  house,  lodging  or  tenement  in  which  he 
resides,  is  numbered,  the  number  thereof,  and  the  clerks  of  the  polls, 
in  case  the  name  of  such  elector  is  not  registered,  shall  truly  enter  in 
the'appropriate  column  of  the  poll  list,  opposite  the  name  of  the 
elector,  the  street  in  which  the  elector  resides,  and  the  number,  in 
case  the  house,  lodging  or  tenement  is  numbered;  and  if  the  same 
is  not  numbered,  then  the  clerk  shall  enter  "not  numbered"  in  the 
column  of  the  poll  list  for  entering  the  number.  In  case  of  refusal 
to  make  the  statement  as  aforesaid,  the  vote  of  such  an  elector  shall 


REGISTRATION.  63 

not  be  received.  Any  person  who  shall  willfully  make  any  false 
statement  in  relation  thereto,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  misdemeanor, 
and  shall,  upon  conviction,  be  punished  with  a  fine  of  $50,  or  by  im- 
prisonment in  the  county  jail  in  the  county  for  a  period  of  ten  days, 
or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

Poll  list  and  register  to  be  filed.]  §  9.  After  the  canvass  of  the 
votes,  one  of  said  poll  lists  and  said  register  so  kept  and  checked, 
as  aforesaid,  shall  be  attached  together,  and  shall,  on  the  following 
day,  be  filed  in  the  town  or  city  clerk's  office  (as  the  case  may  be) 
in  which  said  district  may  be,  or  in  case  there  be  no  such  clerk,  then 
such  poll  lists  and  register  shall  be  filed  with  and  preserved  by 
the  judges  or  inspectors,  to  be  used  by  the  board  of  registry  in 
making  the  list  of  voters  at  the  next  state  election;  the  other  of 
said  poll  lists  and  registers,  so  kept  and  checked,  shall  be  returned 
to  the  office  of  the  county  clerk  in  the  county  in  which,  said  dis- 
trict may  be,  at  the  same  time  the  returns  of  the  election  are 
made.  , 

(Section  10  is  repealed  by  act  March  27, 1874.) 

Registers  open  to  inspection.]  §  II-  The  registers  shall  at  all 
times  be  open  to  public  inspection,  at  the  office  of  the  authorities 
in  which  they  shall  be  deposited,  without  charge. 

Compensation^  §  12.  That  the  members  of  the  board  of  regis- 
tration shall  each  receive  $2  per  day  for  each  day  actually  employed 
in  the  making  and  completion  of  the  registry,  not  exceeding  two 
days,  to  be  paid  to  them  at  the  time  and  in  the  manner  in  which 
they  are  paid  their  other  fees. 

Preserving  order.]  §  13.  The  said  board  shall  have  and  exer- 
cise the  same  power  in  preserving  order  at  their  meetings,  under 
this  act,  as  are  given  to  judges  or  inspectors  of  elections  for  pre- 
serving order  on  election  days;  and  vacancies  in  said  board  shall  be 
filled  in  the  same  manner  that  vacancies  are  now  filled  at  elec- 
tions. 

Fraudulent  registration,  false  swearing,  etc.]  §  14.  Any  person 
who  shall  cause  his  name  to  be  registered  in  more  than  one  election 
district,  or  who  shall  cause  his  name  to  be  registered,  knowing  that 
he  is  not  a  qualified  voter  in  the  district  where  said  registry  is 
made,  or  who  shall  falsely  personate  any  registered  voter,  and  any 
person  causing,  aiding  or  abetting  any  person,  in  any  manner,  in 
either  of  said  acts,  shall  be  punished,  for  each  and  every  offense,  by 
imprisonment  in  the  state  prison  for  not  less  than  one  year.  All 


64  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

intentional  false  swearing  before  said  board  of  registration  shall  be 
deemed  willful  and  corrupt  perjury,  and,  on  conviction,  punished  as 
such.  If  any  member  or  officer  of  said  board  shall  willfully  violate 
any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  or  be  guilty  of  any  fraud  in  the 
execution  of  the  duties  of  his  office,  he  shall  be  punished  for  each 
and  every  offense,  by  imprisonment  in  the  state  prison  for  not  less 
than  one  year. 

(Sections  15  and  16  are  repealed  by  implication,  the  acts  to  which  they  refer 
being  repealed.  Section  1?  was  only  of  temporary  effect.) 

Blanks  to  be  furnished^  §  18.  The  necessary  blanks  for  making 
the  registers  required  by  law,  shall  be  prepared  by  the  secretary  of 
state,  and  transmitted  to  the  persons  entitled  to  receive  them,  in 
the  same  manner  that  blank  returns  of  elections  are  now  trans- 
mitted. 

(Section  19  is  repealed  by  implication,  the  act  to  which  it  refers  being  repealed.) 

Time  act  takes  effectl\  §  20.  This  act  shall  be  in  force  from 
and  after  its. passage. 


REVENUE. 

AN   ACT  for  the  assessment  of  property  and   for  the   lew  and  collection  of  taxes. 
[Approved  March  30, 1872.      In  force  July  1,  1872.] 


Certificate  of  rates.]  §  122.  The  proper  authorities  of  towns, 
townships,  districts  and  incorporated  cities,  towYis  and  villages,  col- 
lecting taxes  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  annually,  on  or 
before  the  second  Tuesday  in  August,  certify  to  the  county  clerk  the 
several  amounts  which  they  severally  require  to  be  raised  by  tax- 
ation, anvthing  in  their  respective  charters,  or  in  acts  heretofore 
passed  by  the  general  assembly  of  this  state,  to  the  contrary  notwith- 
standing. 


Return  of  delinquent  special  assessment^  §178.  When  any  special 
assessment  made  by  any  city,  town  or  village,  pursuant  to  its  char- 
ter, or  by  any  corporate  authorities,  commissioners  or  persons,  pur- 
suant to  law,  remain  unpaid  in  whole  or  in  part,  return  thereof  shall 
be  made  to  the  county  collector  on  or  before  the  tenth  day  of  March 
next  after  the  same  shall  have  become  pavable,  in  like  forms  as  returns 
are  made  for  delinquent  land  tax.  County  collectors  shall  collect, 
account  for,  and  pay  over  the  same  to  the  authorities  or  persons 


REVENUE  -  -  TAXES.  65 

having  authority  to  receive  the  same,  in  like  manner  as  they  are  re- 
quired to  collect,  account  for  and  pay  over  taxes.  The  county  col- 
lector may,  upon  return  of  delinquent  special  assessments  to  him, 
transfer  the  amounts  thereof  from  such  returns  to  the  tax  books  in 
his  hands,  setting  down  therein,  opposite  the  respective  tracts,  or 
lots,  in  proper  columns  to  be  prepared  for  that  purpose,  the  amounts 
assessed  against  such  tract  or  lot. 

AN  ACT  in  relation  to  the  collection  of  taxes  and  special  assessments.    [Approved 
and  in  force  May  2,  1873.] 


City  may  buy  in  at  sale '.]  §3.  Any  incorporated  city,  town  or 
village,  or  corporate  authorities,  commissioners,  or  persons  interested 
in  any  such  special  assessment  or  installment  thereof,  may  become 
purchaser  at  any  sale,  and  may  designate  and  appoint  some  officer 
or  person  to  attend  and  bid  at  such  sale  on  its  behalf. 


TAX  ES. 


AN  ACT  in   regard  to  the  assessment  and  collection  of  municipal  taxes.     [Ap- 
proved May  2^,  1877.     In  force  July  1,  1877.] 

How  may  be  assessed  and  collected.^  §  i.  Be  it  enacted  by  the 
People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  General  Assembly, 
That  all  cities,  villages,  and  incorporated  towns  in  this  state, 
whether  organized  under  the  general  law  or  special  charters,  shall 
assess  and  collect  their  taxes  in  the  manner  provided  for  in  article 
eight  (8)  of  the  act  entitled,  "  An  act  to  provide  for  the  incorpora- 
tion of  cities  and  villages,"  approved  April  10,  1872,  and  in  the 
manner  provided  for  in  the  general  revenue  laws  of  this  state;  and 
all  acts,  or  parts  of  acts,  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  act, 
are  hereby  repealed. 


ARTICLE  VIII. 
The  Assessment  and  Collection  of   Taxes. 

AN   ACT  to  provide  for  the    incorporation    of   cities    and    villages.      [Approved 

April  10th,  1872.] 

Ordinance  levying  tax — limitation^  §  i.  The  city  council  in 
cities,  and  boards  of  trustees  in  villages,  may  levy  and  collect  taxes 
for  corporate  purposes  in  the  manner  following:  The  city  council, 


66  MISCELLAMEOUS    STATUTES. 

or  boards  of  trustees  as  the  case  may  be,  shall,  annually,  on  or  be- 
fore the  third  (3d)  Tuesday  in  September,  in  each  year,  ascertain  the 
total  amount  of  appropriations  for  all  corporate  purposes  legally  made 
and  to  be  collected  from  the  tax  levy  of  that  fiscal  year;  and,  by  an 
ordinance,  specifying  in  detail  the  purposes  for  which  such  appropria- 
tions are  made,  and  the  sum  or  amount  appropriated  for  each  purpose, 
respectively,  levy  the  amount  so  ascertained  upon  all  the  property 
subject  to  taxation  within  the  city  or  village,  as  the  same  is  assessed 
and  equalized  for  state  and  county  purposes  for  the  current  year. 
A  certified  copy  of  such  ordinance  shall  be  filed  with  the  county 
clerk  of  the  proper  county,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  ascertain  the 
rate  per  cent,  which  upon  the  total  valuation  of  all  property  subject 
to  taxation  within  the  city  or  village,  as  the  same  is  assessed  and 
equalized  for  state  and  county  purposes,  will  produce  a  net  amount 
not  less  than  the  amount  so  directed  to' be  levied;  and  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  county  clerk  to  extend  such  tax  in  a  separate  column 
upon  the  book  or  books  of  the  collector  or  collectors  of  state  and 
county  taxes,  within  such  city  or  village:  Provided,  the  aggregate 
amount  of  taxes  levied  for  any  one  (i)  year,  exclusive  of  the  amount 
levied  for  the  payment  of  bonded  indebtedness,  or  the  interest  thereon, 
shall  not  exceed  the  rate  of  two  (2)  per  centum  upon  the  aggregate 
valuation  of  all  property  within  such  city  or  village,  subject  to  taxa- 
tion therein,  as  the  same  was  equalized  for  state  and  county  taxes  of 
the  preceding  year. 

Manner  of  collecting^  ^  2.  The  tax  so  assessed  shall  be  col- 
lected and  enforced  in  the  same  manner  and  by  the  same  officers  as 

J 

state  and  county  taxes,  and  shall  be  paid  over  by  the  officers  collect- 
ing the  same  to  the  treasurer  of  the  city  or  village. 

Time  of  paying  overJ]  §  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  officer 
collecting  such  tax  to  settle  with  and  pay  over  to  such  treasurer,  as 
often  as  once  in  two  weeks,  from  the  time  he  shall  commence  the 
collection  thereof,  all  such  taxes  as  he  shall  then  have  collected,  till 
the  whole  tax  collected  shall  be  paid  over. 

When  tax  levied  for  particular  purpose .]  §  4 .  Whenever  any 
city  or  village  is  required  to  levy  a  tax  for  the  payment  of  any  par- 
ticular debt,  appropriation  or  liability  of  the  same,  the  tax  for  such 
purpose  shall  be  included  in  the  total  amount  assessed  by  the  city 
council  or  board  of  trustees,  and  certified  to  the  county  clerk  as 
aforesaid;  but  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  shall  determine, 
in  the  ordinance  making  such  assessment,  what  proportion  of  such 
total  amount  shall  be  applicable  to  the  payment  of  such  particular 
debt,  appropriation  or  liability;  and  the  city  or  village  treasurer 
shall  set  apart  such  proportion  of  the  tax  collected  and  paid  to  him 


TAXES RATE    OF    TAXATION.  67 

for  the  payment  of  such  particular  debt,  appropriation  or  liability, 
and  shall  not  disburse  the  same  for  any  other  purpose  until  such  debt, 
appropriation  or  liability  shall  have  been  discharged. 

Uniform  it  v^\  §  5.  All  taxes,  levied  or  assessed  by  any  city  or 
village,  except  special  assessments  for  local  improvements,  shall  be 
uniform  upon  all  taxable  property  and  persons  within  the  limits  of 
the  city,  and  no  property  shall  be  exempt  therefrom  other  than  such 
property  as  may  be  exempt  from  taxation  under  the  constitution  and 
general  laws  of  the  state. 


RATE    OF    TAXATION. 

AN   ACT  in  relation  to  the  rate  of  taxation  in  cities,  villages  and  incorporated 
towns.     [Approved  and  in  force  May  30,  1881.] 

Rate  of  taxationl\  §  i.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the 
State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That  all  cities, 
villages  and  incorporated  towns  in  this  state  not  having  by  their 
respective  charters,  the  power  to  levy  and  collect  as  high  a  rate  of 
taxation  as  is  herein  authorized  and  provided  for,  shall  hereafter 
have  power  to  assess,  levy  and  collect  annually  upon  the  taxable 
property  within  their  respective  limits  for  all  corporate  purposes,  in 
addition  to  all  taxes  which  any  such  city,  town  or  village  may  now 
or  hereafter  be  authorized  by  law  to  levy  and  collect  to  support  and 
maintain  schools,  erect  school  buildings,  and  for  all  other  school  pur- 
poses, and  to  pay  interest  on  its  registered  bonded  indebtedness,  such 
an  amount  as  their  respective  corporate  authorities  may  prescribe,  not 
exceeding  in  any  year  the  rate  of  one  per  cent,  of  the  assessed  valuation 
of  such  taxable  property  as  equalized  by  the  state  board  of  equalization 
for  the  preceding  year.  And  the  said  rate  authorized  by  this  act  shall 
be  in  lieu  of  all  rates  and  items  of  taxation  now  provided  and  author- 
ized in  such  charter  for  all  purposes  other  than  for  schools,  the  erec- 
tion of  school  buildings,  and  all  other  school  purposes,  and  for  pay- 
ing interest  on  the  registered  bonded  indebtedness  of  such  city,  town 
or  village. 

Legalization — levy.]  §2.  Every  tax  levy  made  for  lawful  cor- 
porate purposes  by  any  city,  village  or  incorporated  town  within  this 
state,  in  the  year  1880,  up  to  the  rate  of  taxation  above  authorized, 
is  hereby  ratified,  authorized,  legalized  and  confirmed  to  the  same 
effect  in  all  respects  as  though  such  levy  had  been  made  subsequent 
to  the  going  into  effect  of  this  act. 
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68  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

Emergency^  §  3.  Whereas,  an  emergency  exists  by  reason  of 
certain  cities  in  this  state  being  now  without  necessary  power  to  levy 
taxes,  therefore,  this  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and 
after  its  passage. 


SEWERAGE. 

AN  ACT  to  enable  cities,  towns  and  villages  to  contract  with  each  other  for  sewer- 
age.     [Approved  May  14,  1879.     In  force  July  1,  1879.] 

May  contract  for  sewerage,  etcl\  §  I .  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People 
of  the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That 
whenever  any  city,  or  incorporated  town  or  village,  shall  be  adjacent 
or  contiguous  to  any  other  city  or  incorporated  town  or  village,  they 
shall  be  authorized  to  contract  with  each  other  upon  such  terms  as 
may  be  agreed  upon  between  them,  to  allow  and  permit  the  one  the 
use  and  benefit  of  any  sewer  or  drain,  or  of  any  system  of  sewerage 
or  drainage  heretofore  constructed,  or  which  may  be  hereafter  con- 
structed by  the  other,  and  further  that  any  such  sewer  or  drain  or 
system  of  sewerage  or  drainage  constructed  or  which  may  hereafter 
be  constructed  by  the  one,  may  be  extended  or  furnished  to  the  inhabi- 
tants of  the  other,  and  they  may  by  contract  with  each  other 
provide  for  the  joint  construction  of  any  sewer  or  drain  by  the 
municipalities  so  contracting,  and  for  the  common  use  thereof  by  the 
inhabitants  of  such  municipalities. 

How  contract  made^\  §  2.  The  contract  contemplated  in  section 
one  of  this  act  may  be  made  by  ordinance  or  resolution  duly  enacted 
or  passed  by  the  common  council,  board  of  trustees,  or  other  proper 
legislative  authority  of  the  city  or  incorporated  to\vn  or  village  propos- 
ing such  contract,  and  ratified  or  assented  to  by  ordinance  or  reso- 
lution duly  enacted  or  passed  by  the  common  council,  board  of 
trustees,  or  other  proper  legislative  authority  of  the  city  or  incor- 
porated town  or  village  confirming  or  agreeing  to  such  contract,  and 
every  such  contract,  when  ratified  or  confirmed  by  the  proper 
corporate  authorities  of  the  municipal  corporations  who  are  parties 
thereto,  shall  be  in  all  respects  valid  and  binding. 


SIDEWALKS. 

AN  ACT  to  provide  additional  means  for  the  construction  of  sidewalks  in  cities, 
towns  and  villages.     [Approved  April  15,  1875.    In  force  July  1,  1875.] 

Sidewalks  by  taxation.^     §  i .     Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the 
State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That  in  addi- 


SIDEWALKS.  69 

tion  to  the  mode  now  authorized  by  law,  any  city  or  incorporated 
town  or  village  may,  by  ordinance,  provide  for  the  construction  of 
sidewalks  therein,  or  along  or  upon  any  street,  or  part  of  street 
therein,  and  may,  by  such  ordinance,  provide  for  the  payment  of  the 
whole  or  any  part  of  the  cost  thereof,  by  special  taxation  of  the  lot, 
lots,  or  parcels  of  land  touching  upon  the  line  where  any  such  side- 
walk shall  be  ordered,  and  such  special  taxation  may  be  either  by 
a  levy  upon  any  lot  of  the  whole,  or  any  part  of  the  cost  of  making 
any  such  sidewalk  in  front  of  such  lot  or  parcel  of  land,  or  by  levy- 
ing the  whole  or  any  part  of  the  cost  upon  each  of  the  lots  or  par- 
cels of  land  touching  upon  the  line  of  such  sidewalk,  -pro  rata  upon 
each  of  said  lots  or  parcels,  according  to  their  respective  values — 
the  values  to  be  determined  by  the  last  preceding  assessment  thereof, 
for  the  purpose  of  state  and  county  taxation;  or  the  whole  or  any 
part  of  the  cost  thereof  may  be  levied  upon  such  lots  or  parcels  of 
land,  in  proportion  to  their  frontage  upon  such  sidewalks,  or  in  pro- 
portion to  their  superficial  area,  as  may  be  provided  by  ordinance, 
ordering  the  laying  down  of  such  sidewalk;  and  in  case  such  ordi- 
nance shall  only  require  the  payment  of  a  part  of  the  cost  of  such 
sidewalk  to  be  paid  by  a  special  tax  as  aforesaid,  then  the  residue 
of  such  cost  shall  be  paid  out  of  any  fund  of  such  city,  town  or  vil- 
lage, raised  by  general  taxation  upon  the  property  thereof,  and  not 
otherwise  appropriated. 

What  ordinance  may  -provide^     §  2.     Said  ordinance  shall  define 
the  location  of  such  proposed  sidewalk  with  reasonable  certainty, 
shall  prescribe  its  width,  the  materials  of  which  it   shall  be  con- 
structed, and  the  manner  of  its  construction,  and  may   provide  that 
the  materials  and  construction  shall  be  under  the  supervision  of,  and 
subject  to  the  approval  of  some  officer  or  board  of  officers   of  such 
city,  town,  or  village,  to  be  designated  in   such   ordinance.     Said 
ordinance  shall  be  published  as  required  by  law  for  other  ordinances 
of  said  city,  town,  or  village,  and  may  require  all  owners  of  lots  or 
parcels  of  land  touching  the  line  of  said  proposed  sidewalk,  to  con- 
struct a  sidewalk  in  front  of  their  respective  lots  or  parcels,  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  specifications  of  said  ordinance,  within  thirty  days 
after  such  publication,  and  in   default  thereof,   said  materials  to  be 
furnished  and  sidewalk  constructed  by  said  city,  town,  or  village, 
and  the  cost,  or  such  part  thereof  as  may  be  fixed  in  said  ordinance, 
may  be  collected  from  the  respective  owners  of  said  lots  or  parcels 
of  land  as  hereinafter  provided. 

In  case  owner  neglects  to  construct^  §  3.  In  case  of  the  default 
of  any  lot  owner  or  owners  to  construct  the  sidewalks,  as  required 
by  ordinance,  and  the  same  shall  be  constructed  by  the  city,  town,  or 
village,  the  cost  thereof,  or  such  part  of  the  cost  thereof  as  may  have 


7O  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

been  fixed  by  said  ordinance,  may  be  recovered  of  the  owners  so  in 
default  by  an  action  of  debt  in  the  name  of  the  city,  town,  or  village, 
against  such  owners  respectively,  in  any  court  of  competent  juris- 
diction, or  upon  the  completion  of  the  work  by  such  city,  town,  or 
village.  Such  ordinance  may  provide  that  a  bill  of  the  cost  of  such 
sidewalk,  showing  in  separate  items  the  cost  of  grading,  materials, 
laying  down,  and  supervision,  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  clerk 
of  such  city,  town,  or  village,  certified  to  by  the  officer  or  board  desig- 
nated by  said  ordinance  to  take  charge  of  the  construction  of  said 
sidewalk,  together  with  a  list  of  the  lots  or  parcels  of  land  touching 
upon  the  line  of  said  sidewalk,  the  names  of  the  owners  thereof,  and 
the  frontage,  superficial  area,  or  assessed  value  as  aforesaid,  accord- 
ing as  said  ordinance  may  provide  for  the  levy  of  said  costs  by 
frontage,  superficial  area,  or  assessed  value;  whereupon  said  clerk 
shall  proceed  to  prepare  a  special  tax  list  against  said  lots  or  par- 
cels, and  the  owners  thereof,  ascertaining  by  computation  the  amount 
of  special  tax  to  be  charged  against  each  of  said  lots  or  parcels  and 
the  owners  thereof,  on  account  of  the  construction  of  said  sidewalk, 
according  to  the  rule  fixed  for  the  levy  of  such  special  tax  by  said 
ordinance,  which  special  tax  list  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  said 
clerk,  and  said  clerk  shall  thereupon  issue  warrants  directed  to  such 
officer  as  may  be  designated  in  such  ordinance,  for  the  collection  of 
the  amount  of  special  tax  so  ascertained  and  appearing  from  said 
special  tax  list  to  be  due  from  the  respective  owners  of  the  lots  or 
parcels  of  land  touching  upon  the  line  of  said  sidewalk;  and  such 
officer  shall  proceed  to  collect  such  warrants  in  the  same  manner  as 
constables  are  authorized  to  collect  executions,  and  make  return 
thereof,  together  with  the  moneys  collected,  to  the  clerk  of  such 
city,  town,  or  village,  within  sixty  days  from  the  date  of  their  issue, 
and  in  case  any  such  warrant  shall  be  returned,  as  to  the  whole  or 
any  part  thereof,  "  no  property  found,"  other  warrants  may  issue, 
and  proceedings  by  garnishment  may  be  resorted  to,  as  in  cases  of 
garnishment  in  aid  of  the  collection  of  judgments  at  law,  and  all 
moneys  so  collected  and  paid  over  to  said  clerk  shall  be,  by  him,  im- 
mediately paid  over  to  the  treasurer  of  said  city  town,  or  village. 

Special  tax — duty  of  clerk— report.]  §  4.  Upon  failure  to  col- 
lect such  special  tax  as  heretofore  provided  in  this  act,  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  said  clerk,  within  such  time  as  such  ordinance  may  provide, 
to  make  report  of  all  such  special  tax,  in  writing,  to  such  general 
officer  of  the  county  as  may  be  authorized  by  law  to  apply  for  judg- 
ment against,  and  sell  lands  for  taxes  due  county  or  state,  of  all  the 
lots  or  parcels  of  land  upon  which  such  special  tax  shall  be  so  un- 
paid, with  the  names  of  the  respective  owners  thereof,  so  far  as  the 
same  are  known  to  said  clerk,  and  the  amount  due  and  unpaid  upon 


SIDEWALKS.  7 1 

each  tract,  together  with  a  copy  of  the  ordinance  ordering  the  con- 
struction of  said  sidewalk,  which  report  shall  be  accompanied  by 
the  oath  of  the  clerk  that  the  list  is  a  correct  return  of  the  lots  and 
parcels  of  land  on  which  the  special  tax  levied  by  authority  of  said 
city,  town,  or  village,  for  the  cost  or  partial  cost  (as  the  case  may  be) 
of  the  sidewalk  in  said  ordinance  specified,  remains  due  and  unpaid, 
and  that  the  amounts  therein  stated  as  due  and  unpaid  have  not  been 
collected,  nor  any  part  thereof.  Said  reports,  when  so  made,  shall 
be  -prima facie  evidence  that  all  the  forms  and  requirements  of  the 
law  in  relation  to  making  such  return  have  been  complied  with, 
and  that  the  special  tax,  as  mentioned  in  said  report,  is  due  and  unpaid. 

General  officer  to  obtain  judgment — by  -what  laws  governed^  §  5 . 
When  said  general  officer  shall  receive  the  aforesaid  report,  he  shall 
at  once  proceed  to  obtain  judgment  against  said  lots  or  parcels  of 
land  for  said  special  tax  remaining  due  and  unpaid,  in  the  same 
manner  as  may  be  provided  by  law  for  obtaining  judgment  against 
lands  for  taxes  due  and  unpaid  to  the  county  and  state,  and  shall  in 
the  same  manner  proceed  to  sell  the  same  for  the  said  special  tax 
due  and  unpaid.  In  obtaining  said  judgment  and  making  said  sale, 
the  said  officer  shall  be  governed  by  the  general  revenue  laws  of 
the  state,  except  when  otherwise  provided  herein,  and  said  general 
laws  shall  also  be  applicable  to  the  execution  of  certificates  of  sale, 
and  deeds  thereon,  and  the  force  and  effect  of  such  sales  and  deeds; 
and  all  other  laws  in  relation  to  the  enforcement  and  collection 
of  taxes,  and  redemption  from  tax  sales,  shall  be  applicable  to 
proceedings  to  collect  such  special  tax,  except  as  herein  otherwise 
provided. 

When  constructed  by  owner  may  obtain  orderl\  §  6.  Whenever 
payment  of  the  costs  of  any  such  sidewalk  is  required  to  be  made 
in  part  by  special  tax,  and  in  part  out  of  any  general  fund  of  such 
city,  town  or  village,  and  the  owner  of  any  such  lot  or  parcel  of 
land  shall  construct  such  sidewalk  in  accordance  with  the  ordinance 
providing  for  its  construction,  such  owner  shall  file  with  the  clerk  of 
such  city,  town  or  village,  an  itemized  statement  of  the  cost  of  such 
sidewalk  so  constructed  by  him,  verified  by  affidavit,  together  with 
a  certificate  of  the  officer  or  board  directed  by  such  ordinance  to 
superintend  the  construction  thereof,  that  such  sidewalk  has  been 
constructed  and  fully  completed  by  such  owner  in  accordance  with 
such  ordinance,  and  the  council  of  such  city,  town  or  village,  shall 
thereupon,  at  its  first  meeting  thereafter,  allow  and  order  to  be 
issued  to  such  owner,  an  order  on  the  treasurer  of  such  city,  town, 
or  village,  for  the  cost  of  the  construction  of  such  sidewalk,  less  the 
amount  of  special  tax  chargeable  to  the  lot  or  parcel  of  land  of  such 
owner  on  the  line  of  which  such  sidewalk  has  been  so  constructed. 


72  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

VACATION    OF    STREETS. 

AN  ACT  to  revise  the  law  in  relation  to  the  vacation  of  streets  and  alleys.      [Ap- 
proved March  24,  1874.     In  force  July  1,  1874.] 

Three-fourths  vote  required — damages'^  §  i .  Be  it  enacted  by 
the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  General  Assem- 
bly, That  no  city  council  of  any  city,  or  board  of  trustees  of  any 
village  or  town,  whether  incorporated  by  special  act  or  under  any 
general  law,  shall  have  power  to  vacate  or  close  any  street  or  alley, 
or  any  portion  of  the  same,  except  upon  a  three-fourths  majority  of 
all  the  aldermen  of  the  city  or  trustees  of  the  village  or  town 
authorized  by  law  to  be  elected;  such  vote  to  be  taken  by  ayes 
and  noes,  and  entered  on  the  records  of  the  council  or  board. 
And  when  property  is  damaged  by  the  vacation  or  closing  of  any 
street  or  alley,  the  same  shall  be  ascertained  and  paid  as  provided 
by  law. 

Rights  of  adjoining  owners^}  §  2.  When  any  street,  alley,  lane 
or  highway,  or  any  part  thereof,  has  been  or  shall  be  vacated  under 
or  by  virtue  of  any  act  of  this  state  or  by  order  of  the  city  council  of 
any  city  or  trustees  of  any  village  or  town,  or  by  the  commissioners 
of  highways,  county  board,  or  other  authority  authorized  to  vacate 
the  same,  the  lot  or  tract  of  land  immediately  adjoining  on  either 
side  shall  extend  to  the  central  line  of  such  street,  alley,  lane  or 
highway  or  part  thereof  so  vacated,  unless  otherwise  specially  pro- 
vided in  the  act,  ordinance  or  order  vacating  the  same,  unless  in 
consequence  of  more  of  the  land  for  such  street,  alley,  lane  or  high- 
way having  been  contributed  from  the  land  on  one  side  thereof  than 
the  other,  such  division  is  inequitable,  in  which  case  the  street,  alley, 
lane  or  highway  so  vacated  shall  be  divided  according  to  the  equities 
of  the  adjoining  owners. 


TELEGRAPH    COMPANIES. 

AN  ACT  to  revise  the  law  in'  relation  to  telegraph  companies.     [Approved  March 
24, 1874.    -In  force  July  1,  1874.] 

Consent  neeessary  to  erect  poles,  etc.,  on  roads,  streets,  etc. — 
record — -alteration^  §  4.  No  such  company  shall  have  the  right 
to  erect  any  poles,  posts,  piers,  abutments,  wires  or  other  fixtures 
of  their  lines  along  or  upon  any  road,  highway  or  public  ground, 
outside  of  the  corporate  limits  of  a  city,  town  or  village,  without 
the  consent  of  the  county  board  of  the  county  in  which  such  road, 


TELEGRAPH    COMPANIES WARRANTS   ON    TREASURER.  73 

nighway,  or  public  ground  is  situated,  nor  upon  any  street,  alley  or 
other  highway  or  public  ground,  within  any  incorporated  city,  town 
or  village,  without  the  consent  of  the  corporate  authorities  of  such 
city,  town  or  village.  The  consent  herein  required  must  be  in  writ- 
ing, and  shall  be  recorded  in  the  recorder's  office  of  the  county. 
And  such  county  board,  or  the  city  council,  or  board  of  trustees  of 
such  city,  town  or  village,  as  the  case  may  be,  shall  have  power  to 
direct  any  alteration  in  the  location  or  erection  of  any  such  poles, 
posts,  piers  or  abutments,  and  also  in  the  height  of  the  wires,  hav- 
ing first  given  the  company  or  its  agent  opportunity  to  be  heard  in 
regard  to  such  alteration. 


WARRANTS    DRAWN    UPON    TREASURER. 

AN  ACT  to  provide  for  the  manner  of  issuing  warrants  upon  the  treasurer  of  any 
county,  township,  citv,  school  district  or  other  municipal  corporation.  [Ap- 
proved May  81,  1879."  In  force  July  1,  1879.] 

When  -warrants  may  be  draivn^  §  i.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  Peo- 
ple of  the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  General  Assembly, 
That  warrants  payable  on  demand,  shall  hereafter  be  drawn  and 
issued  upon  the  treasurer  of  this  state,  or  of  any  county,  township, 
city,  school  district  or  other  municipal  corporation,  or  against  any 
funds  in  his  hands,  only  when  at  the  time  of  the  drawing  and  issu- 
ing of  such  warrants,  there  shall  be  sufficient  money  in  the  appro- 
priate fund  in  the  treasury  to  pay  said  warrants. 

Issued  in  anticipation  of  taxesl\  §  2.  That  whenever  there  is 
no  money  in  the  treasury  of  any  county,  township,  city,  school 
district  or  other  municipal  corporation  to  meet  and  defray  the  ordi- 
nary and  necessary  expenses  thereof,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the 
proper  authorities  of  any  county,  township,  city,  school  district,  or 
other  municipal  corporation,  to  provide  that  warrants  may  be 
drawn  and  issued,  against  and  in  anticipation  of  the  collection  of 
any  taxes,  already  levied  by  said  authorities  for  the  payment  of  the 
ordinary  and  necessary  expenses  of  any  such  municipal  corporation 
to  the  extent  of  seventy-five  per  centum  of  the  total  amount  of  any 
said  tax  levy:  Provided,  that  warrants  drawn  and  issued  under  the 
provisions  of  this  section,  shall  show  upon  their  face  that  they  arc- 
payable  solely  from  said  taxes  when  collected,  and  not  otherwise, 
and  shall  be  received  by  any  collector  of  taxes  in  payment  of  the 
taxes  against  which  they  are  issued,  and  which  taxes,  against  which 
said  warrants  are  drawn  shall  be  set  apart  and  held  for  their  pay- 
ment. 


74  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

WATER    WORKS. 

AN     ACT   authorizing   cities,  incorporated    towns    and  villages   to  construct   and 
maintain  water  works,    f  Approved  and  in  force  April  loth,  1873.] 

Power  to  supply  water — letting  contract — emergency^  §  i .  That 
all  cities,  incorporated  towns  and  villages  in  this  state,  be  and  are 
hereby  authorized  and  shall  have  power  to  provide  for  a  supply  of 
water  for  the  purposes  of  fire  protection,  and  for  the  use  of  the 
inhabitants  of  such  cities,  incorporated  towns  or  villages,  by  the 
erection,  construction  and  maintaining  of  a  system  of  water  works 
or  by  uniting  with  any  adjacent  city,  incorporated  town  or  village, 
in  the  erection,  construction  and  maintaining  of  a  system  of  water 
works  for  the  joint  use  of  such  cities,  incorporated  towns  or  villages, 
or  by  procuring  such  supply  of  water  from  any  adjacent  city, 
incorporated  town  or  village  already  having  water  works:  Pro- 
vided, that  all  contracts  for  the  erection  or  construction  of  such 
works  or  any  part  thereof,  shall  be  let  to  the  lowest  responsible 
bidder  therefor,  upon  not  less  than  three  (3)  weeks  public  notice  of 
the  terms  and  conditions  upon  which  the  contract  is  to  be  let  hav- 
ing been  given  by  publication  in  a  newspaper  published  in  such 
city,  town  or  village,  or  if  no  newspaper  is  published  therein,  then 
in  some  newspaper  published  in  the. county:  And,  provided  further, 
that  no  member  of  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees,  or  mayor 
shall  be  directly  or  indirectly  interested  in  any  such  contract,  and  in 
all  cases  the  council  or  board  of  trustees  as  the  case  may  be,  shall 
have  the  right  to  reject  any  and  all  bids  that  may  not  be  satisfactory 
to  them. 

(As  amended  by  act  approved  and  in  force  May  14th,  1879.) 

Borrow  money — tax.^  §  2.  Such  cities,  incorporated  towns  and 
villages  may  borrow  money  and  levy  and  collect  a  general  tax  in 
the  same  mannef  as  other  municipal  taxes  may  be  levied  and  col- 
lected for  the  erection,  construction  and  maintaining  of  such  water 
works,  and  appropriate  money  for  the  same. 

May  acquire  property  for  works,  etc^\  §  3.  For  the  purpose 
of  erecting,  constructing,  locating,  maintaining  or  supplying  such 
water  works,  any  such  city,  incorporated  town  or  village  may  go 
beyond  its  territorial  limits,  and  may  take,  hold  and  acquire  property 
and  real  estate,  by  purchase  or  otherwise;  and  shall  also  have  the 
power  to  take,  hold  and  acquire  and  condemn  any  and  all  necessary 
property  and  real  estate  for  the  location,  erection,  construction  and 
maintaining  of  such  water  works,  in  the  manner  provided  for  the 
taking  and  condemning  of  private  property  for  public  use;  and  may 
also  acquire  and  hold  real  estate  and  other  property  and  rights  neces- 


WATER    WORKS.  75 

sary  for  the  location,  erection,  construction  and  maintenance  of  such 
water  works,  by  purchase  or  otherwise ;  and  the  jurisdiction  of  such 
city,  town  or  village  to  prevent  or  punish  any  pollution  or  injury  to  the 
stream  or  source  of  water  for  the  supply  of  such  water  works,  shall 
extend  ten  miles  beyond  its  corporate  limits. 

Rules — tax — assessment — lien]  §  4.  The  common  council  of 
such  cities,  or  trustees  of  such  towns  or  villages,  shall  have  power 
to  make  and  enforce  all  needful  rules  and  regulations  in  the  erec- 
tion, construction  and  management  of  such  water  works,  and  for 
the  use  of  water  supplied  by  the  same.  And  such  cities,  towns  and 
villages  shall  have  the  right  and  power  to  tax,  assess  and  collect 
from  the  inhabitants  thereof  such  tax,  rent  or  rates  for  the  use  and 
benefit  of  water  used  or  supplied  to  them  by  such  water  works,  as 
the  common  council  or  board  of  trustees,  as  the  case  may  be,  shall 
deem  just  and  expedient.  And  all  such  water  taxes,  rates  or  rents 
shall  be  a  lien  upon  the  premises  and  real  estate  upon  or  for  which 
the  same  is  used  or  supplied.  And  such  taxes,  rents  or  rates  shall 
be  paid  and  collected,  and  such  lien  enforced,  in  such  manner  as  the 
common  council  shall,  by  ordinance,  direct  and  provide. 

Special  assessment.]  §5.  The  expense  of  locating,  erecting  and 
constructing  reservoirs  and  hydrants  for  the  purpose  of  fire  pro- 
tection, and  the  expense  of  constructing  and  laying  water  main 
pipes,  or  such  part  thereof  as  may  be  just  and  lawful,  may  be  as- 
sessed upon  and  collected  from  the  property  and  real  estate  specially 
benefited  thereby,  if  any,  in  such  manner  as  may  be  provided  for 
the  making  of  special  assessments  for  other  public  improvements  in 
such  cities,  towns  or  villages. 

Separate  fund.]  §  6.  A*ll  the  income  received  by  such  cities, 
towns,  or  villages  from  such  water  works,  from  the  payment  and 
collection  of  water  taxes,  rents  or  rates,  shall  be  kept  in  a  separate 
fund,  and  shall  first  be  applied  in  the  payment  and  discharge  of  the 
costs,  interest  on  bonds  or  money  borrowed  and  used  in  the  erection 
and  construction  of  such  water  works  and  running  expenses  thereof. 
And  any  surplus  may  be  applied  in  such  manner  as  the  common 
council  or  board  of  trustees  may  direct. 

When  act  not  apply]  §  7.  The  provisions  of  this  act  shall  not 
apply  to  cities,  towns  or  villages  in  which  water  works  are  now 
managed  or  controlled  by  a  board  of  public  works. 

Emergency]  §  8.  Whereas  many  of  the  cities  embraced  in 
this  act  are  entirely  without  adequate  protection  from  fires,  and  are 
without  lawful  authority  to  provide  the  necessary  means  of  protec- 


76  MISCELLANEOUS    STATUTES. 

tion  authorized  by  this  act;  therefore  an  emergency  exists  that  this 
act  should  take  effect  immediately;  therefore,  this  act  shall  take 
effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 


AN  ACT  to  provide  for  the  laying  of  water  supply  pipe  by  bonds  and  special  as- 
sessment, payable  in  installments.     [Approved  and  in  force  March  17,  1874.] 

Bonds — assessments  -payable  in  installments^  §  i.  Be  it  enacted 
by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  represented  in  the  General  As- 
sembly, That  whenever  the  corporate  authorities  of  any  city,  town  or 
village  shall  provide,  by  ordinance,  for  the  laying  of  water  supply 
pipes,  to  be  paid  for  by  a  special  assessment  to  be  made  under  the 
provisions  of  article  nine  of  the  act  of  the  general  assembly,  entitled 
"  An  act  to  provide  for  the  incorporation  of  cities  and  villages,"  ap- 
proved April  10,  A.  D.  1872,  such  corporate  authorities  may,  in 
their  discretion,  provide  in  such  ordinance,  or  by  an  ordinance  to  be 
adopted  at  any  time  prior  to  the  issuance  of  the  warrant  to  the  col- 
lector for  the  collection  of  such  assessment,  that  the  amount  of  the 
estimated  cost  of  such  improvement  shall  be  provided  for  in  the  fol- 
lowing manner,  to  wit :  That  bonds  of  the  city,  town  or  village,  as 
the  case  may  be,  shall  be  issued  for  such  portion  of  the  estimated 
cost  of  such  improvement  as  shall  be  apportioned  to  the  city,  town 
or  village  as  public  benefit,  payable  at  such  time  or  times,  within 
twenty  years,  as  may  be  provided  by  said  ordinance,  or  it  may  in 
such  ordinance  be  provided  that  all  or  any  portion  of  the  amount, 
so  apportioned  as  public  benefits,  may  be  made  by  general  taxation 
in  accordance  with  the  provisions  contained  in  said  article  nine,  and 
that  the  portion  of  said  estimated  cost  which  shall  be  assessed  upon 
property  specially  benefited,  shall  be  payable  in  such  annual  install- 
ments, not  exceeding  ten  in  number,  as  may  in  such  ordinance  be 
prescribed:  Provided,  that  nothing  in  this  section  shall  authorize 
any  city,  town  or  village  to  issue  such  bonds  to  an  amount,  including 
all  existing  indebtedness,  in  excess  of  the  charter,  statutory  or  con- 
stitutional limitation  of  the  indebtedness  of  such  city,  town  or  vil- 
lage. 

When  installments  payable — interest^  §  2.  Whenever  such  cor- 
porate authorities  shall  have  provided,  by  ordinance,  for  the  making 
of  such  improvement  in  the  manner  prescribed  in  section  i  of  this 
act,  the  first  installment  of  the  amount  assessed  upon  property 
specially  benefited  shall  be  payable  immediately  upon  the  issuance, 
by  the  clerk  of  such  city,  town  or  village,  of  his  warrant  to  the  col- 
lector, and  the  subsequent  installments  shall  be  payable  annually 
thereafter,  with  interest  until  paid,  at  such  rate  as  shall  be  pre- 
scribed in  such  ordinance,  not  exceeding  ten  cent,  per  annum. 


WATER    WORKS.  77 

to  assessments  already  ordtrcd.\  g  3.  This  act  shall 
apply  to  assessments  already  ordered  for  the  purpose  set  forth  in 
section  i  of  this  act,  and  to  the  ordinances  in  relation  thereto  as  well 
as  to  ordinances  hereafter  to  be  adopted. 

Emergency.  \  ^  _}.  Whereas  certain  cities,  towns  and  villages 
are  about  to  lay  water  supply  pipe,  and  are  desirous  of  availing 
themselves  of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  therefore  an  emergency  is 
declared  to  exist,  and  this  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from 
and  after  its  passage. 


ORDINANCES 


THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE. 


AN    ORDINANCE 

FOR  REVISING  AND  CONSOLIDATING  THE  GENERAL  ORDINANCES  OF  THE 

TOWN  OF  LAKE. 


WHEREAS,  By  virtue  of  an  act  to  revise  the  charter  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  Cook 
county,  in  the  State  of  Illinois,  approved  March  26,  1869,  the  government  of  said 
town  is  vested  in  the  board  of  trustees  of  said  town,  created  by  said  act;  and, 
whereas,  it  is  the  duty  of  said  board  to  publish  and  declare  their  ordinances:  It  Is 
therefore  considered  expedient,  that  the  general  ordinances  of  the  said  Town  of 
Lake  should  be  revised  and  consolidated,  and  arranged  in  appropriate  chapters  and 
sections ;  therefore, 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  board  of  trustees  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  as  follows: 


LEGISLATIVE  AND  EXECUTIVE  DEPARTMENT, 


CHAPTER     I. 


THE    BOARD    OF  TRUSTEES. 

SECTION  i.  If  any  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  shall  refuse 
or  neglect  to  attend  any  of  the  regular  or  special  meetings  of  the 
board  without  a  reasonable  excuse  for  each  and  every  neglect  or  re- 
fusal, such  member  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  three  dollars,  which 
fine  shall  be  deducted  from  any  claim  such  member  shall  have  on 
said  town  for  services. 

(81) 


82  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

§  2.  Each  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  shall  be  entitled  to 
receive  the  sum  of  three  dollars  per  day  for  each  day's  service  in 
the  necessary  business  of  the  town,  said  amount  to  be  audited  by  the 
board  of  trustees  and  paid  out  of  the  fund  provided  for  that  pur- 
pose. (Ordinance  of  July  14,  1874.) 

§  3.  The  board  of  trustees  may  appoint  an  attorney,  an  engi- 
neer and  surveyor  (who  shall  be  deputy  superintendent  of  public 
works),  a  superintendent  of  water  works,  a  water  commissioner, 
a  captain  and  sergeants  of  police,  and  so  many  road  masters,  pound 
keepers,  policemen  and  other  employes  as  they  may  deem  neces- 
sary or  expedient  and  for  such  term  (not  exceeding  the  municipal 
year  for  which  they  are  appointed)  as  they  may  see  fit,  and  all  such 
appointees  may,  from  time  to  time,  be  suspended  or  removed  from 
office  in  the  discretion  of  the  board  of  trustees,  and  all  vacancies 
may  be  filled  by  said  board. 

§  4.  All  books,  papers,  vouchers,  warrants,  entries,  accounts  and 
memoranda  of  each  and  every  officer  and  employee  of  the  town 
may  be  examined  at  any  time  by  any  member  of  the  board  of 
trustees,  and  the  board  of  trustees  may,  by  resolution,  call  upon  any 
officer  to  make  a  report  in  writing  of  any  subject  matter  which  said 
board  may  designate  in  such  resolution  and  within  such  time  as  said 
resolution  may  prescribe. 

&  5.  Any  person  having  been  an  officer  or  employee  of  the 
town,  shall  within  five  days  after  notification  and  request,  deliver  to 
his  successor  in  office  all  property,  books  and  effects  of  every 
description  in  his  possession  belonging  to  said  town  or  appertaining 
to  his  office. 

§  6.  Each  officer,  besides  the  specific  duties  which  he  may  be 
required  to  do  by  virtue  of  his  said  office,  shall  also  perform  such 
other  and  further  duties,  and  be  subject  to  such  rules  and  regulations 
as  the  board  of  trustees  may,  from  time  to  time,  require,  or  by  ordi- 
nance provide  and  establish. 


CHAPTER     II. 


THE   SUPERVISOR. 


SECTION  I.  The  supervisor  shall  be  ex-officio  treasurer,  super- 
intendent of  police,  health  commissioner,  superintendent  of  streets, 
fire  department,  water  department,  and  of  all  other  departments  of 


SUPERVISOR.  83 

public  works  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  and  by  and  with  the  consent 
and  approval  of  the  board  of  trustees,  may  appoint  such  deputies 
in  each  department  as  may  be  necessary  properly  to  carry  on  the 
business  of  the  town. 

§  2.  The  supervisor  (as  treasurer)  shall  receive  all  moneys  belong- 
ing to  the  town,  and  shall  render,  at  the  end  of  each  and  every 
month,  and  oftener,  if  required,  a  statement  under  oath,  to  the  board 
of  trustees,  showing  the  state  of  the  treasury  at  the  date  of  such 
account,  and  the  balance  of  the  money  in  the  treasury;  said  state- 
ment shall  set  forth  all  the  moneys  received  by  him,  from  whom,  and 
on  what  account  they  shall  have  been  received;  also,  of  all  moneys 
paid  out  by  him,  and  on  what  account  they  shall  have  been  paid. 

§  3.  Said  supervisor  (as  treasurer)  shall  cause  to  be  kept  books 
of  account,  in  such  manner  as  to  accurately  show  all  moneys  received 
by  him,  from  whom,  and  on  what  account  they  have  been  received; 
also  all  moneys  paid  out  by  him,  and  on  what  account  they  have 
been  paid;  said  boDks  shall  be  kept  in  such  manner  as  to  be  readily 
understood,  and  shall  at  all  times  be  open  to  the  examination  of  the 
board  of  trustees. 

§  4.  He  shall  (as  chief  of  police)  see  that  the  members  of  the 
police  force  are  prompt  and  faithful  in  the  discharge  of  their  duties 
and  shall,  from  time  to  time,  issue  such  orders  as  he  may  deem 
necessary  for  their  regulation  and  for  the  preservation  of  the  peace 
and  good  order  of  the  town,  he  shall  also  see  that  all  the  laws  and 
ordinances  of  the  town  are  strictly  enforced. 

^  5.  He  may,  in  his  discretion,  appoint  special  policemen  and 
prescribe  their  duties,  but  he  shall  submit  to  the  board  of  trustees, 
at  their  next  regular  meeting,  a  list  of  the  persons  so  appointed, 
stating  therein  his  reasons  for  the  same,  for  the  approval  or  rejection 
of  said  board. 

§  6.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  supervisor  (as  health  commis- 
sioner) to  enforce  all  the  laws  of  the  state  and  ordinances  of  the 
town,  in  relation  to  the  sanitary  regulation  of  the  town,  and  cause 
all  nuisances  to  be  abated  with  reasonable  promptness.  And  for 
the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  foregoing  requirements,  he  shall  be 
permitted  at  all  times  during  the  day  to  enter  into  any  house,  in 
order  to  a  thorough  examination  of  cellar,  vaults,  sinks  or  drains ; 
and  to  cause  all  privies  to  be  cleansed  and  kept  in  good  condition; 
and  to  cause  all  dead  animals  or  other  nauseous  or  unwholesome 
things  or  substances  to  be  buried  or  removed  or  disposed  of,  as  he 
may  direct.  In  order  that  the  provisions  of  this  section  may  be 
7 


84  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

carried  out,  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  serve  a  notice  in  writing,  upon 
the  owner,  occupant  or  agent  of  any  lot,  building  or  premises  in  or 
upon  which  any  nuisance  may  be  found,  or  who  may  be  the  owner 
or  cause  of  any  such  nuisance,  requiring  him  to  abate  the  same, 
in  such  manner  as  he  shall  prescribe,  within  a  reasonable  time. 

§  7.  He  shall  have  charge  of  all  public  improvements  commenced 
or  to  be  commenced,  and  of  all  special  assessments;  and  shall  have 
power,  subject  to  the  ordinances  of  the  town,  to  regulate  and  control 
the  manner  of  using  the  streets,  alleys,  highways  and  public  places, 
for  the  erection  of  telegraph  poles,  or  other  poles  or  posts;  for  the 
laying  down  of  gas,  water  or  steam  pipes,  and  sewers,  authorized 
by  law  or  the  ordinances,  and  to  determine  the  location  thereof;  and 
to  cause  the  prompt  repair  of  the  streets,  alleys,  highways  and 
public  places,  whenever  the  same  are  taken  up  or  altered. 

§  8.  He  shall,  subject  to  the  ordinances  of  the  town,  have  special 
charge  and  superintendence  of  all  streets,  alleys,  lanes  and  highways 
of  The  Town  of  Lake,  and  of  all  walks  and  cross-walks,  of  all  engine 
houses,  and  all  other  public  buildings  in  the  town,  belonging  to  the 
town,  and  of  the  erection  of  all  public  buildings;  of  all  lamps  and 
lights  for  the  lighting  of  the  streets,  alleys,  lanes,  highways,  public 
places  and  public  buildings  of  the  town,  and  of  the  erection  and 
repair  of  such  lamps  and  lights;  of  all  sewers  and  works  pertaining 
thereto,  and  he  shall  collect  all  water  rents,  water  taxes  or  assess- 
ments, water  licenses  and  permits,  and  all  sewerage  permits  and 
licenses. 

§  9.  He  shall  have  charge  of  all  sewers  and  drains  in  any  of  the 
streets,  alleys,  or  public  places  in  the  town  and  shall  keep  the  same 
in  good  order  and  condition,  and  clean  and  free  from  obstruction,  and 
shall  cause  to  be  made  such  repairs  thereof,  and  of  the  receiving 
basins,  culverts,  and  openings  connected  therewith,  as  may  from  time 
to  time  become  neccessary. 

§  10.  He  shall  prescribe  the  mode  of  piercing  or  opening  any  of 
the  sewers  or  drains,  and  the  form,  size  and  material  of  the  connection 
therewith,  and  shall  have  authority  to  grant  permission  to  make 
lateral  connection  with  said  sewers. 

§11.  He  may  grant  permission  to  persons  to  construct,  at  their 
own  expense,  sewers  or  drains,  or  to  lay  pipes  to  connect  with  any 
sewer  or  drain  built  in  any  of  the  streets  or  alleys  in  the  town, 
charging  a  license  fee  therefor  of  one  dollar  in  each  case ;  but  such 
permission  shall  not  be  granted  except  upon  the  agreement  in  writ- 
ing of  the  person  applying  therefor,  that  said  work  shall  be  per- 


COLLECTOR.  85 

formed  by  some  person  or  persons  duly  licensed  therefor,  and  that 
they  will  indemnify  the  town  for  any  damages  or  costs  to  which  it 
may  be  put  by  reason  of  injuries  resulting  from  neglect  or  careless- 
ness in  performing  the  work  so  permitted,  and  upon  the  further  con- 
dition that  the  board  of  trustees  may  at  any  time  revoke  and  annul 
such  permission,  and  direct  such  sewer,  drain  or  pipe  to  be  taken  up 
or  removed. 

§  12.  He  shall  (as  superintendent  of  the  fire  department),  sub- 
ject to  the  ordinances  and  resolutions  of  the  board  of  trustees,  have 
sole  and  absolute  control  and  command  over  all  persons  connected 
with  the  fire  department  of  the  town;  and  shall  possess  full  power 
and  authority  over  its  organization,  government  and  discipline,  and 
to  that  end,  he  may  prescribe  and  establish  from  time  to  time  such 
rules  and  regulations  as  he  may  deem  advisable. 

S  13.  He  shall  have  the  custody  of  the  engines,  hose  carts,  and 
all  other  property  and  equipments  belonging  to  the  fire  department, 
and  shall  cause  the  same  to  be  repaired  whenever  in  his  opinion  it 
shall  be  needed. 


CHAPTER     III. 


THE   COLLECTOR. 

SECTION  i.  The  collector  shall  execute  all  special  assessment  and 
other  warrants  which  by  law  and  the  ordinances  of  said  town  may 
be  directed  to  him,  and  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  now  are, 
or  may  hereafter  be  imposed  upon  him  by  law  or  the  ordinances  of 
the  town. 

§  2.  He  shall  each  and  every  month,  or  oftener  if  required,  pay 
over  to  the  town  treasurer  all  moneys  collected  by  him  from  any 
source  whatever,  taking  such  treasurer's  receipt  therefor  in  dupli- 
cate. 

§  3.  He  shall  keep  books  and  accounts,  which  shall  show  all 
receipts  and  moneys  received  by  him,  and  other  matters  pertaining 


86  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

to  his  office,  such  books  to  be  kept  in  a  clear,  and  methodical  man- 
ner, and  open  at  all  times  to  the  inspection  of  the  board  of  trustees. 

§  4.  He  shall  annually  between  the  ist  and  loth  of  April,  rfile 
with  the  town  clerk  a  statement  of  all  the  moneys  collected  by  him 
during  the  year,  the  particular  warrant,  special  assessment,  or 
account  on  which  collected,  the  balance  of  moneys  uncollected  on  all 
warrants  in  his  hands,  and  the  balance  remaining  uncollected  at  the 
time  of  the  return  on  all  warrants  which  he  shall  have  returned  dur- 
ing the  preceding  fiscal  year  to  the  clerk. 

J5.  He  shall  make  and  return  a  report  in  writing  to  the  general 
;er  of  the  county  authorized,  or  to  be  designated  by  the  general 
revenue  law  of  this  State,  to  apply  for  judgment,  and  sell  lands  for 
taxes  due  the  county  and  State,  now  the  treasurer  and  ex  officio 
county  collector  of  Cook  county  and  State  of  Illinois,  of  all  the  lands, 
town  lots,  and  real  property  on  which  he  shall  have  been  unable  to 
collect  special  assessments,  with  the  amount  of  special  assessments 
due  and  unpaid  thereon;  together  with  his  warrant,  or  with  a  brief 
description  of  the  nature  of  the  warrant  or  warrants  received  by  him 
authorizing  the  collection  thereof,  on  or  before  the  tenth  day  of 
March,  next,  after  the  same  shall  have  become  payable  in  like  form 
as  returns  are  made  for  delinquent  land  tax;  which  report  shall  be 
accompanied  with  the  oath  of  the  collector  that  the  list  is  a  correct 
return  and  report  of  the  lands,  town  lots  and  real  property  on  which 
the  special  assessments  levied  by  authority  of  The  Town  of  L»ake 
remain  due  and  unpaid,  and  that  he  is  unable  to  collect  the  same  or 
any  part  thereof,  and  that  he  has  given  the  notice  required  by  law 
that  said  warrant  had  been  received  by  him  for  collection. 


CHAPTER     IV. 


TOWN    CLERK. 


SECTION  i.  The  town  clerk  shall  keep  his  office  at  the  town 
hall.  He  shall  keep  the  corporate  seal,  and  affix  the  same  to  all 
papers  which  require  it.  He  shall  keep  all  records  and  papers  be- 


TOWN    CLERK.  87 

longing  to  the  town  ;  and  attend  all  meetings  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees, and  keep  a  full  record  of  its  proceedings  in  the  journal.  He 
shall  prepare  all  warrants  for  the  payment  of  money  ;  sign  and 
deliver  the  same  when  called  for,  after  they  have  been  countersigned 
by  the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees,  taking  a  proper  receipt 
for  the  same.  He  shall  make  proper  copies  of  all  papers  duly  filed 
in  his  office,  and  make  transcripts  from  the  journal  and  other  records 
and  files  of  his  office,  certified  by  him  under  the  corporate  seal. 

§  2.  All  ordinances  passed  by  the  board  of  trustees  shall  be  re- 
corded by  the  clerk  in  a  book  to  be  kept  for  that  purpose  before  the 
next  regular  meeting  after  their  passage.  If  the  ordinance  requires 
publication,  he  shall  cause  the  same  to  be  .duly  published.  The 
clerk  shall  note  at  the  foot  of  the  record  of  each  ordinance  a  mem- 
orandum of  the  date  of  its  passage,  and,  if  published,  the  date  of 
the  publication  of  such  ordinance.  The  originals  shall  be  filed  in 
the  office  of  said  clerk,  with  a  certificate  of  publication  attached  to 
ordinances  requiring  publication. 

§3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  town  clerk  within  five  days 
after  the  result  of  any  election  is  declared,  or  appointment  made,  to 
notify  all  persons  elected  or  appointed  to  office  of  their  election,  or 
appointment,  and  unless  such  persons  shall  respectively  qualify  in  ten 
days  after  such  notice,  the  office  shall  become  vacant. 

§  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  town  clerk  on  or  before  the 
second  Tuesday  in  August,  in  each  year,  to  file  with  the  county 
clerk  of  Cook  county,  Illinois,  a  certified  copy  of  an  ordinance  in 
which  the  total  amount  of  appropriations  for  all  corporate  purposes 
of  The  Town  of  Lake  legally  made,  are  levied  and  assessed. 

&  =;.     The  town  clerk  shall  file  in  his  office  all  assessment  rolls 

O    *^ 

and  judgments  certified  by  a  clerk  of  a  court'  of  record  against 
property  within  the  town;  and  shall  issue  a  warrant  to  the  town 
collector  for  the  collection  of  such  assessment.  The  assessment 
warrant  shall  contain  a  copy  of  such  certificate  of  the  judgment, 
describing  the  lots,  blocks,  tracts  or  parcels  of  land  assessed,  and 
the  respective  amounts  assessed  on  each  lot,  block,  tract  or  parcel 
of  land,  and  shall  be  delivered  to  the  town  collector.  Such  war- 
rant shall  give  sufficient  authority  to  collect  the  assessments  therein 
specified. 


88  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 


CHAPTER   V. 


ENGINEER    AND    SURVEYOR. 

SECTION  i.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  engineer  and  surveyor, 
under  the  direction  of  the  supervisor,  to  take  the  supervision,  charge 
and  direction  of  all  improvements  ordered  by  the  board;  and  to 
make  and  prepare  all  the  necessary  plans,  specifications  and  esti- 
mates for  the  same;  and  also  to  make  proper  and  complete  plats 
and  records  of  the  size  and  location  of  all  sewers  and  water  pipes 
belonging  to  the  town,  as  well  as  of  catch  basins,  man-holes,  con- 
nections, ferrules,  gates,  hydrants,  and  of  such  other  matters  and 
things  of  like  nature  as  properly  belong  to  a  well  regulated  sewer- 
age and  water  department,  to  keep  a  complete  copy  and  record  of 
all  plats  of  subdivisions  that  may  be  approved  by  the  board  of  trus- 
tees ;  to  have  the  supervision  of  the  town  atlas,  and  maps,  and  to  do 
all  the  surveying  and  civil  engineering  of  the  town.  He  shall  cer- 
tify in  writing  to  the  description  of  all  land  contained  in  any  ordi- 
nance, contract  or  assessment  rolls. 


CHAPTER     VI 


TOWN    ATTORNEY. 

SECTION  i.  The  town  attorney  shall  conduct  all  the  law  business 
of  the  town,  and  shall  draw  such  ordinances,  deeds,  leases  and  other 
papers  as  may  be  required  of  him  by  the  board  of  trustees,  or  any 
committee  thereof. 

§  2.  He  shall  when  required,  furnish  written  opinions  upon 
any  subject  submitted  to  him  by  the  board  of  trustees,  supervisor  or 
any  other  officer  of  the  town. 


TOWN    ATTORNEY OFFICERS.  89 

§  3.  Upon  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  office,  or  resignation, 
or  removal  therefrom,  he  shall  forthwith  turn  over  to  his  successor 
in  office,  all  deeds,  leases  or  other  papers  in  his  hands,  belonging  to 
the  town,  together  with  a  statement  showing  what  action,  if  any,  has 
been  had  therein. 

§  4.  He  shall  annually,  on  or  before  the  2Oth  day  of  March 
in  each  year,  report  in  writing  to  the  board  of  trustees  a  statement 
of  all  suits  instituted  and  pending  in  courts  of  record,  in  which  the 
town  is  plaintiff  or  defendant,  in  which  report  shall  be  stated  the 
names  of  all  defendants  and  plaintiffs,  the  nature  of  the  action,  the 
date  of  the  commencement,  and  the  several  steps  that  have  been 
taken  in  court  during  his  term  of  office  to  bring  such  suits  to  final 
issue,  together  with  such  explanatory  remarks,  as  he  may  see  fit  to 
append. 


CHAPTER     VII. 


OFFICERS. 

SECTION  i.  The  bond  of  all  officers  shall  be  executed,  with  two 
or  more  sureties,  conditioned  as  provided  in  this  chapter.  Such 
sureties  shall  justify  separately,  on  the  back  of  the  bond,  that  they 
are  respectively  worth  the  sums  stated  in  their  respective  justifica- 
tions, over  and  above  all  debts  and  liabilities  by  them  owing  or 
incurred,  or  for  which  their  property  is  liable  or  incumbered  at  the 
time  of  justification,  and  over  and  above  all  exemptions  by  law  of 
their  property  from  execution.  The  sums  stated  in  such  justifica- 
tions on  the  bond  of  any  officer  shall  in  the  aggregate  amount  to  the 
penalty  of  such  bond. 

§  2.  The  execution  of  such  bond  shall  be  acknowledged  by 
the  officer  and  his  sureties  before  some  person  authorized  to  take  the 
acknowledgment  of  deeds,  and  a  certificate  of  such  acknowledg- 
ment made  thereon;  after  the  approval  of  the  bond  by  the  board 
of  trustees,  the  clerk  shall  endorse  thereon  the  date  of  its  approval 
and  file  the  same. 


90  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

§  3.  The  salaries  or  compensation  of  all  officers,  clerks  and 
employes  of  the  town  shall  be  determined  and  fixed  by  the  board  of 
trustees  during  the  month  of  April  in  each  year. 

§  4.  The  salaries  and  pay  of  all  officers  and  employes  shall 
be  monthly  to  each  person  entitled  thereto,  in  the  manner  to  be  pre- 
scribed by  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  department  of  finance. 

§  5.  Any  town  officer  upon  whom  the  duty  devolves,  is  hereby 
authorized  to  demand  and  receive  as  fees  for  the  use  of  the  town, 
(except  where  provision  is  herein  made  to  the  contrary): 

For  transferring  each  license,  one  dollar. 
t  For  taking  bond  on  such  transfer,  one  dollar. 

For  each  deed  for  real  estate  issued  by  the  town,  two  dollars. 

For  the  use  of  the  corporate  seal  on  any  attestation,  acknowledg- 
ment or  other  certificate,  fifty  cents. 

Administering  oath  and  attesting  the  same,  twenty-five  cents. 

For  certified  copies  of    any  record,  each  one  hundred  words, 
twenty-five  cents. 

§  6.  All  officers  of  the  town  shall  in  addition  to  the  reports  by 
this  ordinance  required  to  be  made  by  them,  report  to  the  supervisor 
in  writing  when  required,  the  condition  of  their  respective  offices  and 
of  the  business  and  all  matters  therein  touching  the  interests  of  the 
town. 

§  7.  Every  person  having  been  an  officer  of  The  Town  of  Lake 
shall  within  five  days  after  notification  and  request  deliver  to  his  suc- 
cessor in  office  all  property,  books  and  effects  of  every  description  in 
his  possession  belonging  to  the  town  or  appertaining  to  his  said 
office,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  fifty  dollars. 

§  8.  The  offices  of  the  respective  town  officers  shall  be  open 
every  day  except  Sundavs  and  such  holidays  as  shall  be  observed 
by  the  general  custom  of  the  town,  or  by  recommendation  of  public 
authority,  from  eight  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  to  five  o'clock  in  the 
afternoon. 

§  9.  Any  officer  violating  any  provision  of  this  chapter  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  misconduct  in  office,  and  liable  to  removal  from 
office  therefor. 


SEAL. 


91 


CHAPTER     VIII. 


SEAL. 

SECTION  i .  The  seal  heretofore  provided  and  used  by.  and  for 
the  town  of  Lake  (the  impression  on  which  is  a  representation  of  an 
eagle  in  the  centre,  with  the  words  "  Incorporated  "  above  and  "  Feb. 
28,  1867  "  below  the  eagle,  and  the  inscription,  *'  Town  of  Lake, 
Illinois,"  around  the  outer  edge  of  said  seal,  which  seal,  represented 
as  aforesaid,  is  hereunto  annexed)  shall  be,  and  is  hereby  established 
and  declared  to  have  been,  and  now  to  be,  the  seal  of  The  Town  of 
Lake: 


92  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF  -LAKE. 


POLICE  AND  FIRE  DEPARTMENT, 


CHAPTER     IX. 


POLICE. 

SECTION  i.  No  person  shall  be  employed  on  the  police  force 
who  is  not  strictly  temperate,  and  in  case  any  policeman  shall  be 
intoxicated  while  on  duty  he  shall  be  immediately  discharged. 

§  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  captain  of  police  to  see  that  all 
policemen  are  properly  stationed,  and  that  they  attend  promptly  to 
their  duties;  he  shall  superintend  and  direct  the  several  members  of 
the  police  force,  and  see  that  all  the  ordinances  of  the  town  are 
obeyed. 

§  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  policemen,  on  request,  to  furnish, 
at  all  times,  any  and  all  information  which  may  aid  any  stranger  in 
finding  the  residence  of  or  place  of  business  of  any  person  or  party. 

§  4.  They  shall  also,  at  all  times,  report  all  robberies,  larcenies 
and  misdemeanors  of  any  and  every  kind,  to  the  captain  of  police, 
at  the  earliest  moment,  and  take  all  articles  found  and  stolen  prop- 
erty recovered  to  headquarters,  or  report  the  same  at  once;  and,  in 
all  cases  when  arrests  are  made  by  any  policeman,  the  prisoner  must 
be  brought  to  headquarters  and  delivered  to  the  officer  in  charge. 

§  5.  No  member  of  the  department  of  police  shall,  for  his  own 
benefit,  share  in  any  present,  fee,  gift  or  emolument,  for  police  ser- 
vices, additional  to  his  regular  salary  or  compensation. 

§  6.  The  supervisor,  for  meritorious  services,  rendered  by  any 
member  of  the  police  force  in  the  due  discharge  of  his  duty,  may 
permit  any  member  of  the  police  force  to  retain  for  his  own  benefit, 


POLICE.  93 

any  reward  or  present  tendered  him  therefor;  and  it  shall  be  cause 
of  removal  for  any  member  of  the  force  to  receive  any  such  reward 
or  present,  without  notice  thereof  to  the  supervisor. 

8  7.  Any  member  of  the  police  department  receiving  injury 
while  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties,  so  as  to  prevent  him  from 
attending  to  his  duties  as  such  member,  shall  for  the  space  of  twelve 
months,  provided  his  disability  shall  last  that  time,  receive  his  usual 
salary. 

§  8.  Each  member  of  the  police  department -shall  be  furnished 
with  a  copy  of  the  rules  and  regulations  prescribed  by  the  superin- 
tendent, for  the  government  of  the  department. 

^  9.  Every  member  of  the  department  of  police  shall  wear  a 
suitable  badge,  to  be  furnished  by  the  town,  and  any  member  who 
shall  lose  or  destroy  the  same  shall  be  required  to  pay  the  cost  of 
replacing  it,  and  whenever  any  member  shall  leave  the  department 
he  shall  immediately  deliver  his  badge  to  the  captain. 

§  10.  The  several  members  of  the  police  force  of  The  Town 
of  Lake  when  on  duty  shall  devote  their  time  and  attention  to  the 
discharge  of  the  duties  of  their  stations  according  to  the  laws  and 
ordinances  of  the  town  and  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  depart- 
ment of  police;  and  it  shall  be  their  duty  to  the  best  of  their  ability 
to  preserve  order,  peace  and  quiet,  and  enforce  the  laws  and  ordi- 
nances throughout  the  town. 

§  if.  They  shall  have  power  to  arrest  all  persons  in  the  town 
found  in  the  act  of  violating  any  law  or  ordinance  or  aiding  and  abet- 
ing  in  any  such  violation,  and  shall  arrest  all  persons  found  under 
suspicious  circumstances,  and  shall  take  all  such  persons  so  arrested 
to  the  place  designated  by  such  ordinances,  rules  and  regulations. 

§  12.  They  shall  have  power  and  authority  in  the  town  to  serve 
and  execute  warrants  and  other  process  for  the  apprehension  and 
commitment  of  persons  charged  with  or  held  for  examination  or  trial, 
or  taken  in  execution  for  the  commission  of  any  crime  or  misde- 
meanor, or  violation  of  any  law  or  ordinance  of  the  town ;  and  while 
executing  or  serving  or  assisting  in  the  execution  or  service  of  any 
such  warrant  or  process,  shall  be  vested  with  and  have  all  the  powers 
and  authority  conferred  on  constables  at  common  law  and  by  the 
laws  of  this  state. 

§  13.  Any  member  of  the  police  force  who  shall  neglect  or  refuse 
to  perform  any  duty  required  of  him  by  the  ordinances  of  the  town 


94  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

or  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  department  of  police,  or  who  shall 
in  the  discharge  of  his  official  duties  be  guilty  of  any  fraud,  extor- 
tion, oppression,  favoritism  or  willful  wrong  or  injustice,  shall  forfeit 
and  pay  a  penalty  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  14.  Whoever  in  the  town  shall  resist  any  member  of  the  police 
force  in  the  discharge  of  his  duty,  or  shall  in  any  way  interfere  with 
or  hinder  or  prevent  him  from  discharging  his  duty  as  such  member, 
or  shall  offer  or  endeavor  to  do  so.  and  whoever  shall  in  any  manner 
assist  any  person  in  custody  of  any  member  of  the  police  force  to 
escape  or  attempt 'to  escape  from  such  custody,  or  attempt  to  rescue 
any  person  in  custody,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor 
more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

§  15.  Any  person  who  shall  falsely  represent  any  of  the  mem- 
bers of  the  police  department  of  this  town,  or  who  shall  maliciously 
or  with  intent  to  deceive  use  or  imitate  any  of  the  signs,  signals  or 
devices  adopted  and  used  by  the  department  of  police,  or  shall  wear 
in  public  the  uniform  adopted  as  the  police  uniform  after  having  been 
removed  or  suspended,  shall  be  subject  to  be  fined  not  less  than  ten 
dollars  nor  more- than  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  16.  Hackmen,  cabmen,  omnibus  drivers,  draymen,  porters,  run- 
ners and  other  persons  when  at  or  about  any  railroad  depot  or  station, 
or  other  public  place  in  the  town,  shall  obey  the  commands  and  direc- 
tions of  the  police  officer  or  officers  who  may  be  stationed  or  doing 
duty  on  or  about  such  depots  or  stations,  or  other  places,for  the  preser- 
vation of  order  and  enforcing  the  ordinances.  Whoever  shall  refuse 
to  obey  the  commands  and  directions  of  a  police  officer,  as  aforesaid, 
shall  be  subject  to  be  fined  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars. 


CHAPTER     X. 


POLICE    COURT. 

SECTION  i .  There  is  hereby  created  a  police  court  for  The  Town 
of  Lake. 

§  2.  Said  police  court  shall  be  presided  over  by  the  police  magis- 
trate of  The  Town  of  Lake,  or  in  case  of  his  absence  from  the 
the  town,  or  inability  to  act,  by  some  justice  of  'the  peace  of  the 
town  to  be  designated  by  him  or  by  the  board  of  trustees. 


POLICE     COURT.  95 

§  3.  The  police  magistrate,  or  justice  so  designated,  shall  hold 
one  session  of  court  daily,  Sundays  excepted. 

§  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  police  force  to  cause  all  persons 
who  may  be  arrested  for  a  violation  of  any  ordinance  of  the  town  or 
any  law  of  the  State,  to  be  taken  before  the  court  for  trial  or 
examination  as  the  case  may  be. 

^  5.  The  said  police  justice  shall  keep  a  daily  list  of  all  cases 
tried  and  disposed  of  before  him,  and  note  upon  said  list  what  dis- 
position was  made  or  steps  taken  in  each  and  every  such  case;  said 
police  justice  shall,  at  the  end  of  each  and  every  month,  rile  said 
report  or  list  of  cases  with  the  town  clerk,  for  examination. 

§  6.  Any  person  or  persons  arrested  for  the  violation  of  any 
town  ordinance  shall  have  the  right  to  release  himself  or  herself 
from  such  arrest  by  giving  special  bail  in  double  the  amount  of  the 
highest  fine  which  can  be  imposed  for  the  claimed  violation,  condi- 
tioned for  his  or  her  personal  appearance  at  the  next  regular  session 
of  the  police  court. 

§  7.  Any  police  captain  or  sergeant  who  may  be  in  charge  of 
the  police  station  where  such  person  or  persons  shall  be  confined 
when  such  bail  is  offered,  is  hereby  authorized  and  required  to  take 
and  approve  said  bail  bond. 

§  8.  No  person  shall  be  taken  as  special  bail  for  any  person 
arrested  for  the  violation  of  any  town  ordinance  who  shall  not  be  a 
householder  within  the  county  of  Cook,  or  unless  he  or  she  shall 
deposit  with  the  officer  taking  such  bail  a  sum  of  money  equal  to 
the  penal  amount  of  such  bond,  and  stipulate  in  said  bond  that  said 
money  may  be  held  by  The  Town  of  Lake  to  answer,  pay  and  dis- 
charge any  judgment  which  may  be  rendered  on  such  bond. 


96  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

CHAPTER     XI. 


CALABOOSE. 

SECTION  i.  The  rear  room  on  the  ground  floor  in  the  building 
known  as  the  town  hall,  and  situated  near  the  southwest  corner 
of  the  southeast  quarter  of  the  northeast  quarter  of  the  northeast 
quarter  of  section  5,  township  38  north,  range  14,  east  of  the  3rd  p. 
M.,  in  Cook  county,  Illinois,  and  on  the  north  side  of  Central  avenue, 
in  said  Town  of  Lake,  is  hereby  constituted  and  established  a  town 
calaboose  or  jail,  for  said  Town  of  Lake. 

§  2.  The  captain  of  police  shall  be  ex  officio  keeper  of  said 
calaboose  or  jail,  and  shall  have  the  custody,  charge  and  keeping  of 
the  same,  and  of  all  persons  committed  thereto  under  the  supervision 
and  direction  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  The  Town  of  Lake. 

§  3.  The  iron-lined  rooms  in  the  building  known  as  the  Engle- 
wood  hose  house,  situated  on  the  northeast  corner  of  Sixty-third 
street  and  Wentworth  avenue,  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  are  hereby 
designated  as  a  calaboose  or  town  jail,  for  the  detention  of  any  per- 
son or  persons  arrested  for  a  violation  of  the  ordinances  of  said  town 
until  he  or  they  can  be  taken  before  a  justice  of  the  peace  or  magis- 
trate for  examination,  and  the  police  officer  in  charge  of  said  station 
shall  be  ex  officio  keeper  of  said  calaboose. 

§  4.  The  board  of  trustees  may  by  ordinance  establish  other 
calabooses  in  said  town,  and  any  officer  having  any  person  in  arrest 
at  night  or  on  Sunday  may  keep  him  in  any  safe  place  in  his  discre- 
tion over  night  or  on  Sunday,  until  he  can  bring  such  person  before 
the  proper  magistrate  or  justice. 


CHAPTER     XII 


FIRE    DEPARTMENT. 


SECTION  i.  No  person  shall  be  employed  in  the  fire  department 
who  is  not  strictly  temperate,  and  in  case  any  fireman  shall  be  intox- 
icated while  on  duty,  he  shall  be  immediately  discharged. 


FIRE     DEPARTMENT.  97 

§2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  members  of  the  fire  department 
to  prevent  all  persons  not  belonging  to  the  department  from  entering 
any  house,  or  handling  any  apparatus  belonging  to  the  department. 

§  3.  Any  member  of  the  fire  department  receiving  injury  while 
in  the  discharge  of  his  duties,  so  as  to  prevent  him  from  attending  to 
his  duties  as  such  member,  shall,  for  the  space  of  twelve  months 
provided  his  disability  shall  last  that  time,  receive  his  usual  salary' 

§  4.  Each  member  of  the  fire  department  shall  be  furnished 
with  a  copy  of  the  rules  and  regulations  prescribed  for  the  govern- 
ment of  the  department. 

§  5.  Every  member  of  the  fire  department,  when  on  duty,  shall 
wear  a  suitable  badge,  furnished  by  the  town,  and  any  member  who 
shall  lose  or  destroy  the  same,  shall  be  required  to  pay  the  cost  of 
replacing  it;  and  whenever  any  member  shall  leave  the  department, 
he  shall  immediately  deliver  his  badge  to  the  superintendent. 

§  6.  The  supervisor,  for  meritorious  services  rendered  by  any 
member  of  the  fire  department  in  the  due  discharge  of  his  duty, 
may  permit  any  member  of  the  said  department  to  retain  for'  his  own 
benefit,  any  reward  or  present  tendered  him  therefor ;  and  it  shall  be 
cause  of  removal  for  any  such  member  to  receive  any  reward  or 
present,  without  notice  thereof  to  the  supervisor. 

§  7.  No  member  of  the  department,  under  penalty  of  forfeiting 
the  salary  or  pay  which  may  be  due  to  him,  shall  withdraw  or  resign, 
except  by  permission  of  the  superintendent,  unless  he  shall  have 
given  ten  days'  previous  notice  of  his  intention  so  to  do.  Unexplained 
absence  without  leave,  of  any  member  of  the  department  or  five 
days  shall  be  cause  for  removal  and  forfeiture  of  all  pay  due,  but  it 
may,  at  the  option  of  the  superintendent,  be  deemed  and  held  to 
be  a  resignation  by  such  member,  and  accepted  as  such. 

§  8.  No  person  shall  in  any  manner  obstruct  the  use  of 
any  fire  hydrant,  or  have  or  place  any  material  in  front  thereof  or 
within  five  feet  from  either  side  thereof,  under  the  penalty  of  ten 
dollars  for  each  offense;  and  any  and  all  material  found  as  an 
obstruction  as  aforesaid  may  be  forthwith  removed  by  any  member 
or  members  of  the  fire  department,  and  at  the  risk,  cost  and  expense 
of  the  owner  or  claimant. 

§  9.  No  person  other  than  a  fireman,  policeman  or  public  offi- 
cer, shall  enter  or  assemble  with  any  other  person  or  persons,  in  any 
engine  house  belonging  to  the  town  without  the  permission  of  the 
officer  in  charge  of  such  engine  house,  under  the  penalty  of  two  dol- 
lars for  each  offense. 


98  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

§  10.  Any  person  not  a  member  of  the  fire  department,  who 
shall  personate  a  fireman  or  officer  of  the  fire  department  at  a  fire,  or 
going  to  or  returning  from  a  fire,  by  wearing  a  cap  or  badge  or  in 
any  other  way,  shall  be  subject  to  the  penalty  of  not  exceeding  one 
hundred  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  ii.  Every  person  who  shall  be  present  at  a  fire  shall  be  sub- 
ject and  obedient  to  the  orders  of  the  fire  marshal  and  the  assistant 
fire  marshals,  in  extinguishing  the  fire  and  the  removal  and  protec- 
tion of  property;  and  in  case  any  person  shall  refuse  to  obey  such 
orders,  he  shall  forfeit  and  pay  for  every  offense  the  sum  of  five  dol- 
lars: Provided,  that  no  person  not  a  member  of  the  fire  depart- 
ment shall  be  bound  to  obey  any  of  said  officers,  unless  such  officers 
shall  bear  their  respective  badges  of  office,  or  their  official  character 
shall  be  known  or  made  known  to  him;  and  all  such  officers  shall 
have  power  to  arrest  any  person  or  persons  so  refusing  to  obey  such 
lawful  orders  as  aforesaid,  and  hold  them  in  custody  until  after  the 
fire  is  extinguished,  when  Jie  or  they  shall  be  taken  before  a  magis- 
trate to  be  dealt  with  according  to  law. 

§  12.  It  shall  be  lanvful  for  the  fire  marshal  and  the  assistant 
fire  marshals  to  require  the  aid  of  any  drayman  with  his  horse  and 
dray,  driver  of  a  licensed  wagon  with  his  team  and  wagon,  or  any 
citizen,  inhabitant  or  bystander,  in  drawing  or  conveying  any  engine 
or  other  fire  apparatus  to  the  fire  and  in  working  and  using  the  same 
while  at  a  fire;  and  on  the  refusal  or  neglect  of  any  person  to  com- 
ply with  such  requisition,  the  offender  shall  for  every  default  forfeit 
and  pay  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  twenty 
dollars. 

§  13.  Any  person  who  shall  willfully  offer  any  hinder ance  to 
any  officer  or  fireman  in  the  performance  of  his  duty  at  a  fire,  or  shall 
willfully  in  any  manner  injure,  deface  or  destroy  any  engine  or  fire 
apparatus  belonging  to  The  Town  of  Lake,  shall  for  every  such 
offense  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  not  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

§  14.  No  hose  carriage,  hook  and  ladder  carriage  or  engine  shal 
be  drawn  faster  than  a  walk  on  its  return  from  a  fire  or  an  alarm 
of  fire ;  nor  shall  any  such  carriage  or  engine  be  drawn  on  any  side- 
walk opposite  a  paved  or  planked  street ;  nor  shall  any  such  carriage 
or  engine  be  drawn  to  a  fire  or  alarm  of  fire  in  a  manner  calculated 
to  endanger  the  safety  of  persons  or  property  in  the  streets  or  alleys 
of  said  town,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more 
than  twenty-five  dollars,  to  be  paid  by  the  person  or  persons  com- 
mitting the  offense. 


FIRE     DEPARTMENT.  99 

§  15.  No  wagon,  street  railroad  car  or  other  vehicle,  shall  be 
driven  over  any  unprotected  hose  of  the  fire'department  of  The  Town 
of  Lake,  when  laid  down  on  any  street  or  alley  to  be  used  at  any 
fire  or  alarm  of  fire,  without  the  consent  of  the  fire  marshal  or  the 
assistant  in  command,  and  any  person  violating  this  section  shall  be 
subject  to  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  one 
hundred  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  1 6.  The  fire  marshal  shall  procure  and  cause  to  be  carried 
with  each  hose  cart  at  every  alarm  of  fire,  efficient  protectors,  which 
shall  be  laid  down  when  said  hose  is  laid  on  any  street  or  alley,  in 
such  manner  as  to  protect  said  hose  from  injury  when  vehicles  are 
driven  over  the  same,  and  he  shall  also  cause  all  such  hose  to  be 
taken  up  when  no  longer  needed  for  use.  ^ 

§  17.  Should  any  person  have  in  his  possession,  or  make  or 
cause  to  be  made,  any  key  or  keys  of  any  fire-engine  or  truck  house, 
police  signal  or  fire-alarm  telegraph  box,  or  use,  or  cause  to  be 
used,  the  same,  without  the  consent  of  the  proper  authority  (except 
the  supervisor  and  members  of  the  fire  department),  every  such 
person  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  fifty  dollars  for  each 
offense. 

§  1 8.  No  person  shall  be  entitled  to  take  away  any  property 
in  the  possession  'of  the  fire  """department  saved  from  any  fire,  until 
proof  of  ownership  be  made  satisfactory  to  the  fire  marshal  or  act- 
ing fire  marshal. 

§  19.  Any  person  who  shall  scratch,  stencil  or  post  placards  or 
bills  on  any  of  the  poles  of  the  police  and  fire-alarm  telegraph,  or  in 
any  other  manner  deface  or  injure  the  same,  shall  be  subject  to  a 
fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  for  each  and  every  offense. 

§  20.  No  person  or  persons,  except  those  connected  with  the 
management  of  the  same,  shall  open  any  signal  box,  unless  it  be  to 
give  an  alarm  of  fire  or  to  communicate  with  the  police;  or  break, 
cut,  injure,  deface,  derange  or  in  any  manner  meddle  or  interfere 
with  any  signal  box  or  the  'fire-alarm  telegraph  or  telephone  wires, 
under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  and 
every  offense. 


IOO  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 


.DEPARTMENT  OF  PUBLIC  WORKS, 


CHAPTER     XIII. 


BUILDINGS. 

SECTION  I.  No  building  or  structure  of  any  kind  or  description 
shall  hereafter  be  erected  or  constructed  within  the  corporate  limits 
of  The  Town  of  .Lake,  without  a  permit  first  had  and  obtained 
therefor  from  the  superintendent  of  public  works. 

§  2.  Within  that  portion  of  The  Town  of  Lake  described  as  fol- 
lows, to  wit:  The  west  half  of  section  five  (5),  township  thirty- 
eight  (38),  north,  range  fourteen  (14),  east,  (except  the  west  one 
hundred  feet  of  said  section  five  (5),  and  except  the  east  twenty-five 
acres  of  the  east  half  of  the  north  half  of  the  north-west  quarter  of 
said  section  five),  no  building  of  more  than  one  story  in  height  shall 
be  erected  or  constructed,  unless  the  same  be  constructed  of  iron, 
brick  or  stone. 

§  3.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  hereafter  to  erect  within 
the  corporate  limits  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  any  building  of  brick  or 
stone,  unless  the  same  is  constructed  in  accordance  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  chapter,  and  no  frame  or  wooden  building,  unless  the 
same  is  constructed  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  chap- 
ter, so  far  as  the  same  may  be  applicable. 

§  4.  All  business  buildings  not  exceeding  14  feet  high,  shall 
have  enclosing  walls  not  less  than  12  inches  thick, 

S  5.  All  two-story  business  buildings  shall  have  enclosing 
walls  12  inches  thick,  and  basement  walls  not  less  than  16  inches 
thick. 


BUILDINGS.'  IOI 

§  6.  All  three-story  business  buildings  shall  have  enclosing  walls 
not  less  than  16  inches  for  basement  and  first  story,  and  12  inches 
for  second  and  third  stories. 

§  7.  All  four-story  business  buildings  that  are  more  than  100 
feet  deep  shall  have  the  enclosing  walls  (supporting  joists)  20  inches  > 
thick  for  basement  and  first  story;  16  inches  for  second  and  third 
stories,  and  1 2  inches  for  fourth  story.  If  less  than  100  feet  deep 
the  walls  of  basement  20  inches,  first  and  second  stories  16  inches, 
third  and  fourth  stories,  12  inches.  All  five-story  business  buildings 
that  are  more  than  100  feet  deep  shall  have  the  enclosing  and  division 
walls  (supporting  joists)  24  inches  thick  for  basement  story,  20  inches 
thick  for  first  and  second  stories,  and  16  inches  for  third,  fourth  and 
fifth  stories.  Similar  walls  for  five-story  buildings  100  feet  or  less 
in  depth,  basement  wall  24  inches,  first  story  20  inches,  second,  third 
and  fourth  stories,  16  inches,  and  fifth  story  12  inchest  (except  that 
division  walls  may  be  20  inches  for  basement.)  Division  walls  in 
business  buildings  that  are  three  stories  high  shall  be  16  inches  in 
basement,  and  12  inches  in  first,  second  and  third  stories. 

§  8.  Front  and  rear  walls  for  five-story  business  buildings 
shall  be  20  inches  thick  for  basement  and  first  story;  16  inches  for 
second  and  third  stories,  and  1 2  inches  for  fourth  and  fifth  stories. 
Similar  walls  for  four-story  business  buildings  shall  be  20  inches  for 
basement,  16  inches  for  first  and  second  stories,  and  12  inches  for 
third  and  fourth  stories:  Provided,  that  any  front  or  rear  wall  sup- 
porting beams  or  girders  shall  be  increased  8  inches  in  thickness  by 
2  feet,  forming  buttresses  or  pilasters  directly  under  such  beams  or 
girders;  and  -provided,  also,  that  all  12  inch  division  walls  in  busi- 
ness buildings  shall  have  ledges  formed  of  brick  work  projecting  4 
inches  from  face  of  wall  on  each  side  to  receive  the  bearing  of  the 
joists  and  rafters. 

§  9.  Walls  in  any  business  building  for  the  purpose  of  dividing 
the  interior  into  rooms,  passages  or  stairways,  shall  be  of  the  thick- 
ness required  for  rear  walls  of  the  same  height  as  the  required  par- 
tition walls. 

§  10.  The  height  of  stories  for  all  given  thicknesses  of  walls 
must  not  exceed  n  feet  in  the  clear  for  basement;  18  feet  in  the 
clear  for  first  story;  15  feet  in  the  clear  for  second  story;  13  feet 
in  the  clear  for  third  story;  12  feet  in  the  clear  for  fourth  story;  and 
14  feet  in  the  clear  average  height  of  upper  story;  if  any  story 
exceeds  these  heights  respectively,  the  walls  of  such  story  and  of  all 
the  stories  below  the  same  shall  be  increased  4  inches  in  thickness, 
additional  to  thicknesses  already  mentioned. 


IO2 


ORDINANCES  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE. 


§ii-  In  accordance  with  the  foregoing  provisions,  all  walls  for 
business  buildings  shall  be  of  the  thickness  designated  in  the  fol- 
lowing table: 


ENCLOSING  WALLS. 

BASE- 
MENT. 

FIRST 
STORY. 

SECOND 
STORY. 

THIRD 
STORY. 

FOURTH 
STORY. 

FIFTH 
STORY. 

Inches. 

12 
16 
16 
20 
24 
24 
24 
20 
24 

Inches. 

8 
12 
16 
20 
20 
20 
20 
16 
20 

Inches. 

Inches. 

Inches. 

Inches. 

12 

12 
16 
20 
20 
20 
16 
16 

12 

16 
16 
20 
20 
12 
16 

12 
16 
16 
20 
12 
16 

Five  stories  high  

16 
16 
16 

Six  stories  high  

Four  less  than  100  feet  

Five   less  than  100  feet  

12 

DIVISION   WALLS  IN  BUSINESS 
BUILDINGS. 

For  three-story  buildings  

16 
20 
24 
24 
24 
20 

12 
16 
20  . 
'20 
20 
20 

12 
16 
20 
20 
20 
16 

12 
12 
16 
20 
20 
16 

For  four-storv  buildings  

12 
16 
16 
20 
16 

For  five-storv  buildings  

16 
16 
16 
12 

For  six-storv  buildings  

For  seven-story  buildings  

For  five-story,  less  than  100  feet. 
FKONT  AND   REAR  WALLS. 
Of  four-story  buildings  

20 
20 

16 
20 

16 
16 

12 
16 

12 
12 

Of  five-storv  buildings.          

12 

PARTITION  WALLS  IN  BUSINESS 
BUILDINGS. 

For  one  story         

12 
16 
16 
20 
20 

8 
12 
12 
16 
20 

For  two  stories  

12 
12 
16 
16 

For  three  stories  

12 
12 
16 

For  four  stories  

12 
12 

For  five  stories   

12 

§  12.  Whenever  it  is  sought  to  increase  the  height  of  any 
building  beyond  the  height  for  which  the  original  permit  was  granted, 
the  thickness  of  the  walls  thereof  shall  also  be  increased  in  accord- 
ance with  the  above  table. 

§  13.  The  outside  walls  of  rooms  having  trussed  roofs  or  ceil- 
ings, such  as  churches,  public  halls,  theatres,  dining-rooms  or  the 
like,  if  more  than  15  and  less  than  25  feet  high,  shall  average  at 
least  1 6  inches;  if  over  25  feet  high,  at  least  20  inches;  if  over  45 
feet  high,  at  least  24  inches  in  thickness;.  An  increase  of  4  inches 
in  thickness  shall  be  made  in  all  cases  where  the  walls  are  over  100 
feet  long,  unless  there  are  cross  walls  of  equal  height. 

§  14.     If  solid  buttresses  are  employed,  with  a  sectional  area  of 


BUILDINGS.  IO3 

300  or  more  square  inches,  placed  less  than  18  feet  apart,  and 
extended  to,  or  nearly  to  top  of  walls,  4  inches  may  be  deducted 
from  the  thickness  of  any  wall  having  such  buttresses. 

§  15.  Cut  stone  facings  of  walls  shall  be  backed  up  with  brick 
work  of  same  thickness  required  where  no  cut  stone  is  used ;  in  cases 
where  the  cut  stone  is  in  great  measure  self-supporting,  4  inches  less 
thickness  of  brick  backing  may  be  used;  ashlar  fronts  properly 
bonded  to  the  brick  work  may  have  backing  same  as  self-supporting 
stone  fronts  or  wall. 

§  1 6.  Any  party  wall  now  existing,  if  sound  and  in  good  condi- 
tion, may  be  used  in  the  construction  of  an  adjoining  building: 
Provided,  however,  that  no  brick  work  shall  be  placed  on  such  wall 
to  give  additional  height  to  thft  wall,  unless  the  thickness  of  such 
additional  wall,  and  the  thickness  of  the  old  wall  in  each  story 
shall  at  least  equal  the  thickness  required  for  division*  walls 
of  same  height  for  business  buildings  as  required  for  division 
walls.  This  section  shall  apply  in  all  cases  where  it  is  desired  to 
add  additional  height  to  any  business  building.  In  case  of  outside 
walls  of  any  business  building  being  built  against  the  wall  of  any 
old  building  (not  being  a  party  wall)  the  new  wall  shall  be  of  the 
same  thickness  as  required  for  outside  walls  in  such  building. 

§  17.  Buildings  having  the  first  story,  or  basement  and  first 
story,  designed  for  business  purposes,  and  the  upper  stories  for 
dwellings,  the  first  floor,  being  not  more  than  30  inches  above  grade 
of  sidewalk,  shall  have  walls  of  brickwork  of  the  thickness  as  fol- 
lows, to  wit:  For  two  story  and  basement  buildings,  the  basement 
and  first  story  walls  12  inches;  second  story,  8  inches;  for  three  story 
and  basement  buildings,  basement  walls  16  inches;  first  and  second 
stories,  1 2  inches ;  third  story,  8  inches ;  for  four  story  buildings,  the 
basement  wall  20  inches;  first  story,  16  inches;  second,  third  and 
fourth  stories,  12  inches;  when  built  in  blocks  of  two  or  more  build- 
ings, the  division  walls  in  three  story  buildings  may  be  1 2  inches  in 
basement,  and  in  four  story  buildings  they  may  be  16  inches  in  base- 
ment. 

§  1 8.  Two  story  and  basement  walls  of  dwelling  houses  may 
be  constructed  of  brick  work,  the  basement  walls  not  less  than  12 
inches  thick,  walls  of  first  and  second  stones  not  less  than  8  inches 
thick;  and  all  such  dwellings  erected  in  blocks  of  two  or  more 
buildings,  shall  have  division  walls  in  basement  12  inches  thick,  and 
first  and  second  stories,  8  inches  thick. 

§  19.  Three  story  and  basement  dwelling  houses  shall  have 
walls  of  basement  not  less  than  16  inches  thick;  walls  of  first  and 


ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN*    OF    LAKE. 


second  stories,  12  inches;  third  story,~8  inches.  Such  dwellings 
erected  in  blocks  of  two  or  more  buildings  may  have  the  division 
walls  in  basement  and  first  story,  12  inches;  and  in  second  and  third 
story,  8  inches. 

§  20.  All  dwelling  houses  of  more  than  three  stories  and  base- 
ment shall  be  constructed,  if  of  brick,  with  outside  walls  for  base- 
ment and  first  story,  not  less  than  16  inches  thick;  walls  above  first 
story,  not  less  than  12  inches  thick;  division  walls  in  blocks  may  be 
12  inches  thick  in  first  story.  Division  walls  in  any  building,  that 
are  less  than  16  inches  thick,  shall  have  ledges  on  each  side  project- 
ing four  inches  from  face  of  wall  to  receive  the  bearings  of  joists  or 
rafters. 

§  21.  In  accordance  with  the  foregoing  provisions,  all  walls  for 
dwelling  houses  shall  be  of  the  thickness  designated  in  the  following 
table : 


Walls  of  Dwellings. 

Basement. 

1st  Story. 

2d  Story. 

3d  Story. 

4th  Story. 

Basement   and   two  stories  
Basement  and  three  stories  
Dividing  walls,  basement  and  two  stories 
More  than  three  stories  

12  nches.... 
16  nches.... 
12  nches... 
16  nches... 

8  inches... 
12  inches... 
8  inches... 
16  inches... 

8  inches... 
12  incHks... 
8  inches... 
12  inches... 

8  inches... 
12  inches... 

12  inches.... 

Dividing  walls,  basement  and  four  stories 

16  nches... 

16  inches... 

12  inches... 

12  inches... 

12  inches.... 

When   first  story,  or  basement  and  first 
story,  for  shops  or  stores. 

Two  stories  and   basement  
Three  stories  and  basement  
Four  stories  and  basement  
Three-story  building  dividing  wall  

12  inches... 
16  inches... 
20  inches... 
12  inches... 

12    nches... 
12    nches... 
16    nches... 
12    nches... 

8  inches... 
12  inches... 
12  inches... 
12  inches... 

8  inches... 
12  inches... 
8  inches... 

12  inches.... 

Four-story  building  dividing  wall  

16  inches... 

16    nches... 

12  inches... 

12  inches.... 

12  inches.... 

§22.  'All  dwelling  houses,  including  those  having  first  story, 
used  for  business  purposes,  and  all  other  buildings  that  are  not  more 
than  two  stories  high,  having  flat  roofs,  shall  have  all  the  walls 
(except  front  walls)  extend  16  inches  above  the  roof,  and  not  less 
than  8  inches  thick,  to  have  proper  copings  of  incombustible  mate- 
rial; double  pitched  roofs  to  have  their  division  and  side  walls  carried 
up,  forming  fire  walls  in  same  manner;  walls  at  the  eaves  of  all  roofs 
(except  flat  roofs)  shall  be  carried  up  their  full  -thickness,  flush 
with  the  upper  edge  of  the  rafters  of  roof,  and  the  sheathing  board 
shall  be  bedded  in  mortar  on  such  walls. 

§  23.  Business  buildings,  more  than  two  stories  high,  having 
flat  roof,  shall  have  their  side  and  rear  walls  carried  2  feet  above  the 
roof;  division  and  party  walls  3  feet  above,  forming  fire  walls,  not 


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less  than  12  inches  thick;  to  have  copings  of  incombustible  materials; 
front  walls  may  terminate  flush  with  the  upper  surface  of  sheathing 
of  roof.  Division  and  party  walls  to  extend  through  mansard  or  other 
steep  roofs,  not  less  than  16  inches,  and  have  copings  same  as  other 
fire  walls. 

§  24.  Any  building  not  more  than  three  stories  high  may  have 
the  rear  wall  terminate  flush  with  the  upper  surface  of  the  sheathing 
or  roof:  Provided,  that  the  gutter  at  the  eave  of  such  roof  is  entirely 
of  metal  or  of  wood  enveloped  with  metal,  such  metallic  work  to 
extend  across  and  cover  the  wall  and  be  properly  secured  to  sheath- 
ing of  roof. 

§  25.  No  chimney  shall  be  built  with  less  than  4  inch  walls, 
and  no  chimney  top  shall  be  less  than  5  feet  above  the  roof  (for  flat 
roof),  and  2  feet  above  the  ridge  of  any  pitched  roof;  ordinary  flues 
in  business  buildings  shall  have  4 -inch  walls  and  8-inch  jambs;  flues 
larger  than  250  square  inches  and  less  than  500  square  inches  shall 
be  surrounded  with  walls  not  less  than  8  inches  thick;  the  wall  of 
such  flue  above  the  inlet  funnel  shall  be  12  inches»thick  for  the  first  15 
feet  around  and  above  such  inlet;  tops  of  such  chimneys  to  be  at  least 
8  feet  above  the  roaf,  or  five  feet  above  the  highest  part  of  roof 
within  50  feet  of  such  chimnsy.  Flues  with  more  than  500  and  less 
than  800  inches  area,  shall  have  not  less  than  1 2-inch  walls  for  the 
first  36  feet,  and  i6-inch  walls  opposite  the  inlet  and  10  fe'et  above 
the  same,  top  of  such  chimney  10  feet  above  the  roof,  or  7  feet  above 
the  highest  part  of  roof  within  50  feet  of  such  chimney.  Chimneys 
with  flues  more  than  800  and  less  than  1,800  square  inches  shall  have 
surrounding  walls  not  less  than  12  inches  thick  to  the  height  of  45 
feet,  and  shall  have  a  4-inch  lining  with  4-inch  air  space  opposite  the 
inlet  funnel,  the  lining  to  commence  4  feet  below  the  inlet  and  extend 
8  feet  above  the  same,  to  have  openings  from  flue  into  the  air  space 
at  top  and  bottom  of  the  lining  (flues  having  1 2-inch  walls,  to  the 
height  herein  mentioned,  may  be  continued  with  walls  not  less  than 
8  inches  thick) ;  chimney  tops  of  flues  having  800  to  1,800  inches 
area  shall  be  built  12  feet  above  the  roof,  and  10  feet  above  any  roof 
within  a  radius  of  50  feet:  Provided,  that  all  chimneys  having  walls 
less  than  8  inches  thick  shall  be  plastered  on  the  brick  or  be  covered 
with  metallic  lath  or  wire  cloth,  before  plastering. 

8  26.  The  provisions  of  the  foregoing  section  as  to  thickness  of 
walls  pertaining  to  chimneys,  shall  be  applicable  only  to  such  chim- 
neys as  are  part  of,  or  situated  in  any  building.  Flues  in  party 
walls  shall  not  extend  beyond  the  center  of  the  wall.  Joint  flues  in 
party  walls  shall  be  separated  by  a  4-inch  "  width  "  of  brick  work 
their  entire  height. 


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§  27.  All  chimneys,  with  flues  larger  than  1,800  square  inches, 
shall  be  disconnected  from  any  main  building,  and  shall  be  at  least 
10  feet  above  the  highest  building  within  a  radius  of  60  feet,  and  in 
no  case  less  than  80  feet  high. 

§  28.  Proper  foundations  of  masonry  shall  be  prepared  for  the 
support  of  buildings.  Business  buildings,  fronting  on  streets  having 
sewers,  shall  have  their  foundations  sunk  at  least  12  inches  below 
the  drainage,  and  no  foundation  shall  be  less  than  4  feet  below  the 
exposed  surface  of  the  ground,  and  in  no  case  shall  any  foundation 
rest  on  any  rilling  or  made  ground.  The  breadths  of  the  founda- 
tions of  the  several  parts  of  any  building  shall  be  proportioned  so 
that,  as  nearly  as  practicable,  the  pressure  shall  be  equal  on  each 
square  foot  of  the  foundation.  Water  lime  cement  mortar  shall  be 
used  in  the  masonry  of  all  foundations  exposed  to  dampness. 

§  29.  In  brick  walls  every  seventh  course  shall  be  headers.  All 
fire  flues  shall  be  smoothly  plastered  or  have  struck  joints.  Walls 
shall  be  securely  anchored  to  the  timbers  and  joists  resting  upon  them. 

§  30.  Hollow  walls,  not  bearing  walls,  may  be  used  in  all  cases ; 
but  all  hollow  walls  shall  be  bonded  or  tied  together  with  incom- 
bustible anchors,  placed  not  more  than  three  feet  apart.  If  used  as 
bearing  walls,  the  thickness  shall  be  reckoned  by  their  solid  parts, 
unless  either  part  is  at  least  eight  inches  thick,  and  solid  connections 
are  made  in  upright  directions  not  less  than  12  inches  wide  nor  more 
than  8  feet  apart  from  centers.  In  such  case  two-thirds  of  the  hol- 
low space  shall  be  counted  with  the  solid  parts :  Provided,  that  in  no 
case  shall  the  ends  of  the  joists  or  other  wood  work  be  allowed  to 
come  within  four  inches  of  the  hollow  space. 

§  31.  The  backing  of  any  iron  front  that  is  not  wholly  self- 
supporting  shall  be  treated  as  an  independent  wall.  If  the  iron  wall 
is  self-supporting,  then  the  party  wall  shall  be  extended  to  meet  the 
outer  thickness  of  iron,  and  all  vacancies  shall  be  filled  with  grout  to 
insure  a  complete  separation  of  adjoining  buildings. 

§  32.  In  the  construction  of  any  building,  no  wall  shall  be  car- 
ried to  a  greater  height  than  two  stories  above  any  other  wall. 

§  33.  All  buildings  hereafter  erected  shall  be  kept  provided 
with  proper  metallic  leaders  for  conducting  the  water  from  the  roof 
to  the  ground  sewer  or  street  gutter,  in  such  manner  as  shall  pro- 
tect the  walls  and  foundations  from  damage,  and  in  no  case  shall 
the  water  from  such  leaders,  or  otherwise,  be  allowed  to  flow  upon 
the  sidewalks,  but  shall  be  conducted  by  drain  pipe  to  the  street 
gutter  or  sewer. 


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§  34.  All  roofs  shall  be  so  constructed  as  to  be  reached  by 
scuttle,  or  by  iron  steps  fastened  to  the  outside  of  the  outer  wall; 
if  by  scuttle,  the  same  shall  be  at  least  20  x  30  inches,  the  frame  and 
lid  covered  with  metal,  and  shall  have  a  stationary  ladder  commu- 
nicating with  such  scuttle. 

§  35.  Ends  of  joists  or  beams  entering  a  brick  wall  shall  be 
cut  so  as  not  to  disturb  the  brick  work  by  any  deflection  or  break- 
ing of  the  joists  or  beams.  All  such  joists  or  timbers  entering  a 
party  or  division  wall  from  opposite  sides  shall  have  at  least  4 
inches  of  solid  brick  work  between  the  ends  of  such  timbers  or 
joists.  All  buildings  for  residence  and  business  purposes  shall  have 
the  brick  project  not  less  than  i^  inches  inside  of  the  face  of  the 
wall,  between  the  joists  of  each  floor  and  ceiling  joists. 

§  36.  Joists  and  girders  in  any  building  shall  be  of  proper 
dimensions  to  sustain  the  load  designed  to  be  placed  upon  them ;  gir- 
ders may  rest  upon  piers  of  brick  or  stone,  or  upon  columns  of 
wood  or  iron  of  proper  dimensions.  All  floor  joists  shall  be  prop- 
erly bridged  with  cross-bridging.  All  headers  in  floor  framing  of 
business  buildings  that  are  placed  at  a  greater  distance  than  2 
feet  from  the  end  of  a  trimmer  shall  be  fixed  in  proper  iron  stirrups. 

§  37.  The  face  of  wall,  pilaster  or  column,  of  any  building 
above  the  level  of  its  main  water-table,  unless  such  column  or  pilas- 
ter is  merely  part  of  any  portico  or  window,  or  window  dressing, 
shall  not  project  beyond  the  building  line. 

§  38.  Porticos  to  any  building  extending  through  one  or  two 
stories  may  have  their  plinths  extend  4  feet  over  the  building  line, 
but  bay  or  oriel  windows,  to  dwelling  houses,  shall  have  the  body  of 
such  window  not  more  than  3  feet  over  the  building  line,  and  no, 
part  of  such  window  shall  be  at  a  less  distance  than  8i  feet  above 
grade  of  sidewalk;  brackets  projecting  not  more  than  14  inches  to 
be  kept  5  feet  above  the  sidewalk. 

§  39.  Buildings  designed  for  the  storage  of  petroleum,  or  arti- 
cles of  like  nature,  shall  be  constructed  as  follows,  to  wit:  Their 
walls  shall  not  be  less  than  16  inches  thick,  nor  more  than  16  feet 
high;  their  floors  shall  be  made  of  fire-proof  paving  or  concrete, 
upon  the  ground,  which  shall  be  at  least  2  feet  below  the  street 
grade;  their  roofs  shall  be  of  metal,  or  in  best  manner  of  composi- 
tion roof,  to  have  fire  walls  18  inches  high  all  round,  not  less  than  8 
inches  thick,  and  have  copings  of  incombustible  material. 

§  40.  The  egress;  openings  and  stairways  of  theatres  or  other 
rooms  wherein  crowds  of  people  occasionally  assemble,  or  wherein 


108  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

large  numbers  of  employes  are  kept  at  work,  shall  in  no  case  be 
less  than  five  feet  wide,  nor  aggregate  a  less  proportion  than  eighteen 
inches  for  each  one  hundred  persons  such  theatre  or  other  room  may 
contain  or  accommodate.  This  provision  to  apply  to  the  doors  of 
each  gallery  or  compartment  of  such  building,  as  well  as  to  the 
exterior  openings.  All  doors  of  such  buildings  or  rooms  shall  be 
made  to  swing  outward. 

§  41.  All  buildings  over  two  stories  high,  used  for  the  manufac- 
ture of  combustible  articles  or  materials,  wherein  more  than  two 
hundred  employes  are  kept  at  a  time,  must  have  at  least  two  egress 
stairways,  which  are  at  least  50  feet  from  each  other. 

§  42.  No  building  within  the  limits  of  The  Town  of  Lake  shall 
be  used  or  occupied,  in  whole  or  in  part,  for  any  of  the  trades  or  occu- 
pations hereinafter  mentioned, to  wit:  planing  mills,  sash,  door  and 
blind  factories,  carpenter  or  cooper  shops,  wagon  or  carriage  manu- 
factories, cabinet  and  furniture  factories,  wood-turning  and  veneer- 
ing works,  agricultural  implement  manufactories,  box  or  shingle 
factories,  or  any  other  wood-working  factory  or  shop,  unless  such 
building  so  occupied  shall  have  in  connection  with  it  a  brick  or  fire- 
proof vault  of  sufficient  capacity  to  contain  all  shavings,  sawdust, 
chips,  or  other  light  combustible  refuse  connected  therewith,  and  all 
such  shavings  and  other  light  combustible  refuse  shall  be  removed 
daily  from  such  premises  to  such  vault.  In  no  event  shall  proprie- 
tors, owners  or  lessees  of  such  manufactories  allow  combustible 
refuse  to  accumulate  upon  any  lot,  or  in  any  building,  unless  stored 
in  a  fire-proof  vault. 

§  43.  No  person  shall  hereafter,  either  as  owner,  lessee  or 
agent,  use  or  occupy,  or  permit  the  use  and  occupation  of  any  store, 
factory,  workshop  or  other  structure,  where  any  person  or  persons 
shall  be  employed  as  workmen  or  workwomen,  for  wages,  in  any 
trade  or  occupation,  unless  every  such  store,  factory,  workshop  or 
other  structure  shall  be  provided  with  sufficient  doors  and  stairways 
for  the  escape  of  the  employes  in  event  of  fire  or  other  accident  hap- 
pening, under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars  for  each 
and  every  offense,  and  the  further  penalty  of  ten  dollars  for  each  and 
every  day  such  owner,  lessee  or  agent  shall,  after  the  first  convic- 
tion, neglect  or  refuse  to  comply  with  any  provision  of  this  section. 

§  44.  Every  store,  building,  factory  or  other  structure,  wherein 
any  person  or  persons  shall  be  employed,  above  the  first  story  thereof, 
in  any  trade  or  occupation,  as  workmen  or  workwomen  for  wages, 
shall  contain  and  be  provided  with  a  good  and  sufficient  fire-proof 
stairway  for  each  twenty-five  feet  of  frontage*  of  every  such  store, 
building,  factory  or  other  structure. 


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§  45.  In  every  factory,  workshop  or  other  place  or  structure, 
where  machinery  is  employed,  the  belting,  shafting,  gearing,  eleva- 
tors and  every  other  thing,  when  so  located  as  to  endanger  the  lives 
and  limbs  of  those  employed  therein  while  in  the  discharge  of  their 
duties,  shall  be,  as  far  as  practicable,  so  covered  or  guarded  as  to 
insure  against  any  injury  to  such  employes. 

§  46.  Every  vat,  pan,  or  other  structure  with  molten  metals  of 
hot  liquid,  shall  be  surrounded  with  proper  safeguards  for  prevent- 
ing accidents  or  injury  to  those  employed  at  or  near  them. 

§  47.  The  walls  and  roofs,  doors  and  windows,  shall  be  kept  in 
good  repair,  so  as  to  keep  out  rain,  wind  and  snow. 

^  48.  Any  person  or  persons  neglecting  or  refusing  to  comply 
with  any  of  the  requirements  contained  in  the  last  four  preceding 
sections,  after  notice  so  to  do  from  the  superintendent  of  public 
works,  shall  be  subject  to  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  for 
each  such  neglect  or  refusal;  and  the  further  penalty  of  ten  dollars 
for  each  and  every  day  such  neglect  or  refusal  shall  continue. 

§  49.  Hot  air,  hot  water,  steam  or  other  furnace,  whether  brick 
or  metal,  shall  be  kept  at  least  ten  inches,  and  the  smoke  flue  at  least 
twenty  inches,  oft'  from  any  unprotected  woodwork.  All  furnaces 
shall  be  placed  on  foundations  of  brick  or  stone,  with  proper  hearths, 
of  incombustible  material,  at  least  twenty-four  inches  wide  in  front  of 
the  ash  pit.  All  hot  air  conductors  that  are  placed  within  ten  inches 
of  any  woodwork  shall  be  made  double,  one  within  another,  with  at 
least  one-half  inch  space  between  the  two.  All  hot  air  registers 
shall  be  set  in  incombustible  borders  not  less  than  two  inches  in 
width;  all  such  borders  shall  be  firmly  set  in  plaster  of  paris;  open- 
ings in  floors  for  registers  shall  be  lined  with  bright  tin  to  receive 
the  register  boxes,  the  lining  to  be  kept  at  least  one  inch  distant 
from  such  register  box.  I.  C.  or  I.  X.  bright  tin  shall  be  used  in 
the  construction  of  all  hot  air  flues  and  their  appendages. 

§  50.  Floors  under  all  stoves  shall  be  protected  by  a  covering  of 
incombustible  material.  Stoves  shall  be  kept  at  least  twenty  inches, 
and  their  smoke  pipes  twelve  inches  from  any  unprotected  wood 
work. 

§51.  The  wood  work  of  all  boiler  houses  and  boiler  rooms  shall 
be  kept  at  least  six  feet  from  the  boiler,  and  four  feet  from  the  breech- 
ing or  smoke  conductor,  and  one  foot  from  the  dome  of  the  boiler, 
unless  such  wood  work  is  properly  protected  with  incombustible 
imterial,  and  then  there  shall  be  at  least  two  feet  space  between  the 
boiler  or  smoke  pipe  and  the  protection. 


IIO  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

§52.  The  floors  of  all  rooms  when  containing  stationary  boilers, 
shall  be  made  of  incombustible  materials,  five  feet  on  all  sides  and  at 
least  eight  feet  in  front  of  any  boiler. 

§  53-  When  portable  boilers  are  used  on  wood  floors  of  any 
building,  such  wood  shall  have  a  close  protection  of  incombustible 
material,  not  less  than  six  inches  thick,  covering  all  the  space  under 
the  boiler  and  projecting  not  less  than  two  feet  on  the  sides  and 
rear,  and  six  feet  in  front,  with  an  air  chamber  of  not  less  than  two 
inches  formed  in  such  protections.  Hollow  tiles,  properly  laid  may 
be  used  for  such  protection. 

§  54.  No  brick  oven,  coffee  roaster,  or  any  other  brick  structure 
to  contain  fire  shall  be  permitted  on  a  wood  floor  of  any  building. 

§  55.  No  wood  fence  shall  be  constructed  that  exceeds  eight  feet 
in  height  above  sidewalk  grade,  or  above  surface  of  the  ground 
where  no  grade  is  established. 

§  56.  Cupolas  of  foundries  shall  in  all  cases  extend  at  least  four 
feet  above  highest  point  of  roof  within  a  radius  of  forty  feet  of  each 
cupola. 

§  57.  No  unprotected  heater  or  movable  light  shall  be  kept 
within  any  room  or  building  wherein  hay  or  straw,  or  any  highly 
inflammable  articles  are  kept  or  stored.  The.  least  protection  in 
such  cases  shall  be  a  permanent  surrounding  wire  screen  with 
meshes  less  than  one  quarter  of  an  inch. 

§58.  Steam  pipes  shall  be  kept  at  least  two  inches  from  all 
wood  work,  otherwise  they  shall  be  protected  by  a  soapstone,  or 
earthen  ring  or  tube,  or  rest  on  iron  supports. 

§  59.  No  pipes  shall  be  let  into  the  joists  or  beams  of  any  floor 
to  a  greater  depth  than  two  inches,  and  not  more  than  three  feet 
from  the  ends  of  the  joists  or  beams. 

§  60.  Wooden  flag  poles  are  permitted  to  be  erected  on  any 
building,  but  their  braces  and  other  parts,  if  any  such  be  put  on, 
shall  be  of  iron. 

§  61.  Where  awnings  are  attached  to  buildings,  the  frame  work 
shall  be  of  metal. 

§  62.  Walls  of  any  building  shall  be  securely  braced  during  the 
process  of  erection. 

§  63.  The  term  "  business  building  "  shall  embrace  all  buildings 
used  principally  for  business  purposes,  thus  including,  among  others, 
hotels,  theatres,  and  office  buildings. 


BUILDINGS.  Ill 

§  64.  The  terms  "  wholesale  store,"  or  "  storehouse,"  shall 
embrace  all  buildings  used  (or  intended  to  be  used)  exclusively  for 
purposes  of  mercantile  business  or  storage  of  goods. 

§65.  A  basement  story  of  any  building  is  defined  as  a  story 
whose  floor  is  twelve  inches  or  more  below  the  sidewalk,  and  whose 
height  does  not  exceed  twelve  feet  in  the  clear;  all  such  stories  that 
exceed  twelve  feet  high  shall  be  considered  as  first  stories. 

§  66.  The  heights  of  all  buildings  for  the  purposes  of  this  ordi- 
nance shall  be  taken  from  the  grade  of  sidewalk  to  a  point  half  way 
from  the  lowest  to  the  highest  point  of  roof. 

§  67.  No  occupant,  owner  of,  or  contractor  for  any  building,  or 
any  other  person  shall  in  any  way  hinder  or  prevent  any  authorized 
officer  from  entering,  during  business  hours,  any  business  building,  or 
any  other  building  in  process  of  construction.  But  no  dwelling  house 
shall  be  entered  after  it  is  occupied  without  the  consent  of  the  occu- 
pants, except  between  the  hours  of  n  A.  M.  and  3  p.  M. 

^  68.  Iron  bars  shall  not  be  driven  in  the  roadway  of  any  street 
for  the  purpose  of  attaching  guy-ropes  of  derricks.  Posts  may  be 
set  up  opposite  any  derrick  for  the  purpose  of  attaching  guy-lines. 
Such  posts  shall  be  not  less  than  eight  inches  square,  of  sound  tim- 
ber, sixteen  feet  long,  set  at  least  four  feet  into  the  ground.  Guy- 
ropes  attached  to  such  posts  shall  be  kept  at  least  ten  feet  above  the 
surface  of  the  street. 

§  69.  Any  person  desirous  of  utilizing  the  space  under  the  side- 
walks in  front  of  any  building  owned  by  him,  shall  construct  a  suf- 
ficient stone  wall  to  retain  the  roadway  of  the  street,  and  shall 
extend  the  side  walls,  division  and  party  wralls  of  such  building  under 
the  sidewalk  to  such  curb  wall;  the  sidewalk  in  all  such  cases  shall 
be  of  incombustible  material  entire,  supported  by  walls  or  iron  beams 
and  columns;  openings  in  such  walks  for  the  admission  of  coal  or 
light  shall  be  covered  with  prismatic  lights  in  iron  frames,  or  with 
iron  covers  having  a  rough  surface,  and  in  no  case  will  a  smooth 
surface  be  tolerated  on  any  such  cover.  No  plain  surface  of  glass 
shall  be  placed  in  any  sidewalk.  In  all  cases  where  sidewalks  are 
to  be  thus  used,  a  permit  shall  be  first  obtained  from  the  superin- 
tendent of  public  works  of  The  Town  of  Lake;  such  permit  shall 
specify  the  details  of  such  construction. 

§  70.     Before  the  erection,  construction  or  material  alteration  of 

.any  building  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  the  owners,  architect  or  builder, 

shall  submit  to  the  superintendent  of  public  works  full  specifications 


112  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

and  plans  of  the  proposed  construction  or  alteration,  and  a  detailed 
statement  in  writing;  such  statement  shall  give:  (i)  The  loca- 
tion of  the  proposed  work.  (2)  General  dimensions,  number  and 
height  of  stones.  (3)  Dimensions  of  joists  and  timbers  and  dis- 
tance apart.  (4)  Dimensions  of  supporting  iron  work.  (5)  For 
what  purpose  the  building  is  designed. — The  owner,  his  agent  or 
architect,  shall  then  sign  an  agreement  that  he  will  construct  the 
work  in  accordance  with  the  description  as  set  forth  in  such  specifi- 
cations, plans  or  detailed  statement,  and  all  matters  and  thing  con- 
nected with  such  construction  or  alteration  of  any  .building  shall  be 
done  in  strict  compliance  with  the  building  ordinance.  Thereupon 
the  superintendent  of  public  works,  shall  issue  a  permit  to  make  such 
construction  or  alteration,  upon  the  payment  of  the  fees  and  water 
tax  hereinafter  mentioned  in  this  ordinance.  And  it  shall  not  be 
lawful  to  proceed  to  construct  or  materially  alter  any  building  without 
such  permit. 

§  71.  Before  the  erection,  construction,  alteration  or  repair  of 
any  building,  or  any  part  of  any  building,  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  the 
owner,  architect  or  builder  shall  pay  fees  and  "  water  tax  "  as  iol- 
lows: 

For  every  1,000  brick  used  in  the  construction  of  building,  10  cents. 
For  every  cord  of  rubble  stone  used  in  the  construction,  5  cents. 
For  every  1,000  yards  of  plastering  used  in  the  construction,  $3.00. 
Permit  for  each  building,  fifty  cents. 
Permit  for  obstruction  of  street,  $i. 

§  72.  Any  person  having  the  use  of  any- portion  of  the  street  or 
sidewalk  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  or  repairing  any  building,  or 
for  any  other  purpose,  shall  cause  a  red  light  to  be  placed  in  a  con- 
spicuous place  in  front  of  such  obstruction  from  dark  until  sunrise 
each  night  during  the  time  such  obstruction  remains.  A  sidewalk, 
or  passage  way,  at  least  four  feet  wide  shall  be  kept  in  front  of  any 
new  building,  as  far  as  it  is  practicable,  making  allowance  for  the 
proper  handling  of  any  materials  to  be  used  in  or  about  such  build- 
ing. 

§  73.  Any  work  of  alteration  or  addition  made  for  any  purpose 
in,  to  or  upon  any  building,  except  the  necessary  repairs  not  affect- 
ing the  construction  of  the  external  or  party  walls,  chimneys,  stair- 
ways or  height  of  a  building,  shall  to  the  extent  of  such  work  of 
alteration  or  addition,  be  subject  to  the  regulations  of  this  ordi- 
nance. 

§  74.  No  person,  except  a  licensed  house-mover,  shall  remove 
any  building  within  the  limits  of  the  town,  and  every  such  person 


BUILDINGS.  113 

shall,  annually,  before  engaging  in  said  occupation,  obtain  a  license 
therefor  from  the  superintendent,  and  no  such  license  shall  be  granted 
until  the  party  applying  therefor  shall  have  given  a  bond,  in  the. sum  of 
five  thousand  dollars,  with  good  and  sufficient  sureties,  to  be  approved 
by  the  superintendent,  conditioned,  among  other  things,  that  said  party 
will  pay  any  and  all  damages  which  may  happen  to  any  tree,  pave- 
ment, street,  or  sidewalk,  or  to  arry  telegraph  pole  or  wire,  belong- 
ing to  The  Town  of  Lake,  whether  said  damage  or  injury  shall  be 
inflicted  by  said  party  or  his  agents,  employes,  or  workmen;  and 
conditioned,  also,  that  said  party  will  save  and  indemnify,  and  keep 
harmless  The  Town  of  Lake  against  all  liabilities,  judgments,  costs 
and  expenses  which  may  in  anywise  accrue  against  said  town  in 
consequence  of  the  granting  of  such  permit  or  license,  and  will  in 
all  things  strictly  comply  with  the  conditions  of  his  permit. 

§75-  Upon  execution  of  said  bond  and  its  acceptance  by  said 
superintendent,  a  license  shall  be  issued,  and  the  said  licensed  person 
shall,  in  each  and  every  instance,  before  removing  any  building,  obtain 
a  permit  so  to  do  from  the  superintendent. 

§  76.  Whenever  in  the  opinion  of  the  superintendent,  any  wall  or 
other  part  of  a  burned  building  is  dangerous,  or  when  any  building 
shall  be  deemed  unsafe  for  the  purpose  for  which  it  is  used,  or  that 
shall  be  in  danger  of  being  set  on  fire  from  any  defect  in  its  construc- 
tion, the  superintendent  shall-  notify  the  owner  or  his  agent  in  writ- 
ing, specifying  wherein  such  danger  consists,  or  wherein  such  build- 
ing is  unsafe  or  defective.  If  the  owner  neglects  or  refuses,  for  the 
space  of  five  days  after  the  serving  of  such  notice,  to  proceed  to  put 
such  building  in  a  safe  condition,  or  forthwith  to  pull  down,  or  secure 
such  wall  or  dangerous  parts  of  a  burned  building,  he  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more  than  fifty 
dollars  for  each  and  every  day  such  violation  shall  continue  after 
five  days  from  the  serving  of  such  notice. 

§  77.  Every  theatre,  opera  house,  hall,  church,  or  other  build- 
ing intended  to  be  used  for  public  assemblages,  shall  be  deemed  a 
public  hall,  within  the  meaning  of  this  chapter. 

^  78.  Any  person  desiring  a  permit  to  erect  any  public  hall  shall 
make  application  to  the  superintendent  of  public  works,  in  com- 
pliance with  section  70  of  this  chapter. 

§  79.  No  stairway  to  any  public  hall  or  part  thereof  shall  rise 
more  than  10  feet  without  a  platform,  and  no  winders,  wheeling  or 


ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

circular  steps  shall  be  used.  Each  stairway  and  passage-way 
shall  have  a  strong  hand  rail  on  each  side  thereof  through  its 
entire  length. 

§  80.  Every  public  hall,  with  accommodations  for  five  hundred 
or  more  people,  shall  have  at  least  two  separate  and  distinct  exits, 
to  be  as  far  apart  as  may  be  found  practicable.  Public  halls, 
accommodating  seven  hundred  or  more  persons,  shall  have  at 
least  three  separate  and  distinct  exits.  The  exits  from  all  gal- 
leries shall  be  independent  of  and  separate  from  the  exits  of  the 
main  'floor. 

§  81.  No  portion  of  the  main  floor  of  any  public  hall  not  used 
as  a  theatre,  and  with  accommodations  for  five  hundred  persons, 
shall  be  elevated  to  a  greater  height  than  thirty-five  feet  above  the 
street  grade.  Public  halls  with  the  accommodations  for  one 
thousand  persons  or  more  shall  have  the  main  floor  not  over 
twenty-five  feet  above  the  street  grade;  no  portion  of  the  main 
floor  of  any  theatre,  with  accommodations  for  five  hundred  or 
more  persons,  shall  be  more  than  ten  feet  above  the  street 
grade. 

&  82.  The  license  for  each  public  hall  shall  state  the  number 
of  persons  it  has  accommodations  for,  and  no  more  than  that  num- 
ber shall  be  allowed  to  enter  such  hall  at  any  one  time,  which 
number  shall  be  governed  by  the  number  of  feet  of  exit  of  the  doors 
and  passages,  and  shall  be  approved  by  the  superintendent  of  pub- 
lic works. 

§  83.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of 
this  chapter,  where  no  other  penalty  is  provided,  shall  be  subject 
to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars,  nor  exceeding  one  hundred 
dollars,  for  each  and  every  offense.  Any  builder  or  -contractor 
who  shall  construct,  and  any  architect  having  charge  of  same, 
who  shall  permit  to  be  constructed,  any  building  in  violation  of 
this  chapter,  shall  be  liable  to  the  penalties  provided  and  imposed  by 
this  section. 

§  84.  The  court  rendering  judgment  in  any  case  for  a  violation  of 
any  of  the  provisions  hereof  shall  likewise  order  the  abatement  of  any 
nuisance  created  by  such  offense  and  give  a  reasonable  time  for  such 
abatement.  If  then,  the  offender  shall  fail  to  abate  such  nuisance 
within  the  limited  time  for  such  abatement,  then  in  such  case  he  (or 
they)  shall  be  held  to  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more 


BUILDINGS GRADES.  115 

than  fifty  dollars  for  each  and  every  day  said  nuisance  shall  remain 
in  existence  beyond  the  time  granted,  such  penalties  shall  be 
recovered  as  other  penalties  under  this  ordinance. 


CHAPTER    XIV. 


GRADES. 

SECTION  i.  The  base  or  datum  for  the  levels  of  The  Town  of 
Lake,  shall  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  fixed  at  the  plane  of  low 
water  mark  of  lake  Michigan,  in  the  year  1847,  as  established  by 
the  trustees  of  the  Illinois  and  Michigan  canal,  and  is  twelve  and 
four-tenths  (i2r40)  feet  below  the  upper  side  of  the  water-table  on 
the  north-east  corner  of  the  Transit  House  at  Union  Stock  Yards; 
and  is  seventeen  and  seven  hundred  and  ninety-five  thousandths 
(I7T7oV<r)  ^eet  below  the  upper  side  of  the  water-table  on  the  north- 
east corner  of  the  round  house  of  the  Lake  Shore  and  Michigan 
Southern  Railroad  Company  at  the  south-west  corner  of  Root  and 
State  streets;  and  is  twenty  and  eight  hundred  and  thirty-one  thou- 
sandths (2OT803ff1ir)  feet  below  the  upper  side  of  the  water-table  on 
the  north-east  corner  of  the  High  School  building  at  Englewood; 
and  is  twenty-nine  and  seven  hundred  and  ninety-one  thousandths 
(29TVsV)  ^eet  below  the  under  side  of  the  water-table  on  the  north- 
east corner  of  the  Normal  School  building  at  Normal,  all  in  The 
Town  of  Lake.  The  grades  hereinafter  established  shall  have  refer- 
ence to  the  base  or  datum  provided  for  in  this  section. 

§  2.  The  grades  of  the  top  of  the  sidewalk,  at  the  edge  next  to 
the  street,  on  the  streets  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  mentioned  in  the 
tables  in  this  chapter  contained,  shall  be  at  the  intersections  of  said 
streets  with  each  other,  or  with  other  objects,  or  at  the  points  at 
which,  if  they  were  extended,  they  would  so  intersect,  fixed  at  the 
heights  shown  by  the  figures  (which  indicate  feet  and  decimal  frac- 
tions thereof),  set  in  the  places  where  the  spaces  between  the  lines 
containing  the  names  of  such  streets  or  other  objects,  at  the  left- 
hand  side  of  said  tables,  intersect  the  spaces  between  the  lines  con- 
taining the  names  of  such  streets,  or  other  objects,  at  the  tops  of 
said  tables  respectively: 


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§  3.  All  grades  between  the  points  mentioned  in  the  foregoing 
table  shall  be  straight  lines  drawn  from  one  fixed  point  to  the  near- 
est fixed  point. 

§  4.  All  sidewalks  shall  incline  upwards  from  the  outer  edge 
towards  the  line  of  buildings  or  lots,  at  the  rate  of  one  inch  in  three 
feet. 

§  5.  Nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  construed  to  confer  any 
power  on  any  party,  person  or  firm,  to  fill  streets  or  raise  the  grade 
of  sidewalks,  in  front  of  their  own  or  any  other  premises,  until  such 
streets  have,  by  the  board  of  trustees,  been  ordered  filled  to  grade; 
the  true  intent  and  meaning  of  this  chapter  being  to  fix  and  deter- 
mine the  grade  for  streets  or  portions  of  streets  to  which  it  refers, 
but  not  to  order  them,  or  any  of  them  filled  up  to  the  grade. 


CHAPTER     XV. 


LAMPS. 

SECTION  i.  The  board  of  trustees  shall  have  the  charge  and 
control  of,  and  shall  erect  all  lamp  posts  and  lamps,  and  street  signs 
designating  the  names  of  the  streets,  which  shall  be  placed  on  said 
lamps. 

§  2.  The  post  office  department,  under  the  direction  of  the 
board  of  trustees,  is  hereby  granted  permission  to  attach  and 
fasten  post-office  boxes  to  the  public  lamp  posts  in  this  town;  and 
any  person  or  persons  who  shall  deface  or  in  any  way  injure  any 
such  post-office  box  shall,  for  each  offense,  be  subject  to  a  fine 
of  not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

§  3.  No  person,  unless  authorized  by  the  respective  contractors 
for  lighting  the  streets,  shall  at  any  time  light  or  extinguish  or  cause 
to  be  lighted  or  extinguished  any  public  lamp  which  such  contractor 
is  or  shall  be  required  to  light,  under  their  contract  made  with  the 
town,  under  the  penaltv  of  ten  dollars  for  each  offense ;  and  any  and 
every  such  contractor  shall  be  liable  to  a  like  fine  of  ten  dollars  for 
wilfully  neglecting  to  light  any  lamp  according  to  contract. , 

§  4.  Any  person  breaking,  mutilating  or  obstructing  any  of 
the  public  lamps  in  The  Town  of  Lake  shall  be  liable  to  a  penalty 
of  ten  dollars  for  each  offense. 


LAMPS —  NUMBERING     HOUSES.  121 

§  5.  Any  person  who  shall  break,  misplace  or  carry  away  any 
of  the  street-signs  now  or  hereafter  to  be  placed  on  any  of  the  public 
lamps,  shall  be  liable  to  a  penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  6.  No  person,  without  permission  of  the  superintendent  of 
public  works,  shall  take  up,  remove  or  carry  away  any  public  lamp 
post  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  under  the  penalty  of  fifty  dollars  for 
each  offense. 

§  7.  No  person  shall  remove  or  cause  or  permit  to  be  removed 
any  public  lamp  post  now  or  hereafter  to  be  placed  in  front  of  his 
premises,  for  any  purpose  whatsoever,  without  the  permission  of  the 
board  of  trustees;  and  every  such  person  shall  cause  the  lamp  posts 
so  removed  to  be  re-set  at  his  own  expense  under  the  direction  of 
said  board,  immediately  upon  notice  from  said  board  so  to  do,  under 
the  penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  8.  Any  person  who  shall  carelessly  or  maliciously  break, 
deface  or  in  any  way  injure  or  destroy  any  public  lamp  or  lamp  post 
in  this  town,  or  climb  upon,  or  hitch  any  horse  or  other  animal  to 
any  public  lamp  post,  or  hang  or  place  any  goods  or  merchandise 
thereon,  or  place  any  goods,  boxes,  wood  or  any  other  heavy  material 
upon  or  against  the  same,  shall  be  liable  to  a  penalty  of  ten  dollars 
for  each  offense. 


CHAPTER    XVI. 


NUMBERING     OF     HOUSES. 

SECTION  i.  The  decimal  system  of  numbering  streets  is  adopted 
as  the  system  of  numbering  streets  in  The  Town  of  Lake.  Thirty- 
ninth  (39th)  street  shall  be  the  initial  or  starting  point  for  numbering 
all  north  and  south  streets,  and  all  diagonal  streets  ;  and  State 
street  shall  be  the  initial  or  starting  point  for  numbering  all  east  and 
west  streets ;  and  the  word  street  shall  include  avenue,  court  and 
place.  One  hundred  numbers  shall  be  assigned  on  each  street  to 
each  block  or  square  not  exceeding  six  hundred  and  sixty  feet  in 
length  or  width ;  to  all  blocks  or  squares  exceeding  six  hundred  and 
sixty  feet  in  length  or  width,  two  hundred  numbers  shall  be 
assigned,  and  the  intervening  narrow  streets  and  alleys  shall  not  be 
taken  or  considered  as  the  boundaries  of  blocks  or  squares.  The 


122  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

first  square  on  each  street  running  west  from  State  street  shall 
commence  with  the  number  one  hundred  (100),  and  the  first  square 
on  each  street  running  south  from  Thirty-ninth  (39th)  street,  shall 
commence  with  the  number  3900,  and  each  succeeding  square  shall 
commence  with  an  even  hundred,  as  aforesaid,  and  in  all  respects 
shall  adhere  to  the  decimal  system  of  numeration.  Also  on  all 
streets  running  at  right  angles,  but  not  extending  to  the  initial  points, 
the  same  order  of  enumeration  shall  be  observed  as  though  such 
street  did  actually  extend  to  such  point.  And  it  is  hereby  made  the 
duty  of  the  owners  or  occupants  of  buildings  situated  in  The  Town 
of  Lake  to  number  them  in  the  manner  hereinafter  provided. 

§  2.  The  engineer  of  The  Town  of  Lake  shall  assign  a  number 
to  each  lot  or  part  of  lot  fronting  on  any  street,  avenue,  or  public 
place  east  of,  and  including  the  west  side  of,  Western  avenue,  and 
north  of,  and  including  the  south  side  of  Seventy-first  (yist)  street 
in  said  town,  and  the  records  of  such  numbering  in  the  books  of 
said  engineer  shall  be  evidence  of  the  respective  numbers  or  desig- 
nations aforesaid.  Said  engineer  shall  prepare  the  necessary  maps 
and  records  of  the  numbers  to  be  assigned  to  all  lots  situated  in  The 
Town  of  Lake  within  the  limits  above  prescribed;  and  no  owners, 
or  other  persons  shall  affix  a  street  number  to  a  building  in  said 
town  without  having  first  obtained  from  said  engineer  a  certificate 
designating  the  number  assigned  to  the  lot  on  which  such  building 
is  situated. 

§  3.  The  engineer  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  to  provide  for  the 
expenses  of  mapping  the  town  and  assigning  the  street  numbers 
to  the  lots  therein,  is  hereby  authorized  and  directed  to  require  pay- 
ment for  the  certificates  to  be  issued  according  to  the  foregoing 
section,  at  the  rate  of  fifty  cents  for  each  number  designated  by  said 
certificates. 

§  4.  Each  of  the  figures  of  every  number  shall  be  not  less  than 
three  inches  in  length,  being  so  marked  as  to  be  distinctly  and  easily 
read.  Said  numbers  shall  be  placed  in  a  conspicuous  place  on  the 
side  of,  or  above  the  front  door  of  the  buildings  to  which  the  same 
are  attached. 

§  5.  Any  person  being  the  owner  or  occupant  of  any  building 
now  erected  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  who  after  being  notified  by  the 
engineer,  or  other  proper  officer  of  said  town,  that  the  street  numbers 
are  on  record  at  his  office,  shall  for  thirty  (30)  days  neglect  or  refuse 
to  number  any  buildings  owned  or  occupied  by  him,  in  conformity 
with  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  or  who  shall  number  such  build- 
ing without  having  first  obtained  from  the  engineer,  or  other  proper 
officer  of  said  town  a  certificate  designating  the  proper  number  of 


NUMBERING    HOUSES.  123 

such  building,  shall  be  subject  to  a  penalty  of  five  (5)  dollars,  and  a 
further  penalty  of  five  (5)  dollars  for  every  thirty  (30)  days  there- 
after that  he  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  number  said  building,  or  shall 
maintain  thereon  a  number  without  having  first  obtained  from  said 
engineer  said  certificate,  and  a  sufficient  notice  by  said  engineer,  or 
other  proper  officer  of  the  town  to  all  owners  or  occupants  that  the 
street  numbers  are  on  record  at  his  office,  shall  be  an  advertisement 
to  such  effect  in  any  newspaper  publislied  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  to 
be  inserted  for  three  (3)  successive  weeks. 

§  6.  Any  owner  or  occupant  of  any  building  hereafter  erected 
in  The  Town  of  Lake  who  shall,  for  30  days  after  the  same  shall  be 
erected,  neglect  or  refuse  to  number  said  building  according  to  the 
provisions  of  this  chapter,  or  who  shall  number  said  building 
without  having  first  obtained  from  said  engineer  a  certificate  desig- 
nating the  proper  number,  shall  be  subject  to  a  penalty  of  five  (5) 
dollars,  and  a  further  penalty  of  five  (5)  dollars  for  every  thirty  (30) 
days  thereafter  that  said  building  shall  be  without  its  number,  accord- 
ing to  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  or  shall  have  a  number  thereon 
without  said  certificate  having  first  been  obtained  from  said  engineer. 

§  7.  The  engineer,  or  other  proper  officer  of  The  Town  of  Lake, 
is  hereby  authorized  to  erect  signs  designating  the  names  of  the 
streets  in  The  Town  of  Lake  at  all  street  corners,  within  the  limits 
prescribed  in  section  2  of  this  chapter,  such  signs  to  be  painted  on 
the  corner  street  lamps,  wherever  street  lamps  now  are  or  hereafter 
may  be  erected  in  The  Town  of  Lake. 


CHAPTER     XVII. 


PLATS. 

SECTION  i.  No  plat,  map  or  subdivision  of  any  block,  lot, 
sublet,  or  part  thereof,  or  any  piece  or  parcel  of  land,  shall  be 
approved  by  the  board  of  trustees  until  the  same  shall  be  properly 
certified  by  a  surveyor,  and  acknowledged  by  the  owner,  as  pro- 
vided by  the  general  laws  of  this  state;  and  said  owners  shall 
make  oath  that  they  believe  that  they  are  the  owners  in  fee  of  the 


124  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

property  described  in  said  plat.  Nor  until  a  deposit  of  money  be 
made  with  the  town  clerk,  sufficient  to  pay  the  fees  of  the  recorder 
of  Cook  county,  Illinois,  for  recording  the  same.  Nor  until  the 
engineer  and  surveyor  of  the  town  shall  have  certified  that  the 
streets  and  alleys  designated  on  said  plat  correspond  with  the  exist- 
ing streets  and  alleys  in  The  Town  of  Lake. 

§  2.  Said  board  shall  examine  the  plat,  map,  or  subdivision,  not 
earlier  than  the  next  meeting  after  a  compliance  with  the  provisions 
of  section  one  of  this  chapter,  and  shall  either  approve  or  reject  the 
same;  and  upon  approval  thereof,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  town 
clerk  to  file  the  same  in  the  said  recorder's  office,  and  to  duly  cer- 
tify to  the  approval  thereof  under  the  corporate  seal  of  the  town. 
And  until  the  same  is  so  approved  and  certified,  the  said  plat,  map, 
or  subdivision  shall  not  be  entitled  to  record,  and  shall  have  no 
validity  whatever. 


CHAPTER     XVIII. 


PLUMBERS. 

SECTION  i.  Any  person  desiring  to  do  business  in  connection 
with  the  water  works  of  The  Town  of  Lake  as  a  plumber,  shall  first 
obtain  a  license  as  such  plumber  from  the  board  of  trustees  and 
shall  pay  a  fee  of  fifteen  dollars  therefor,  which  fee  shall  be  paid  to 
the  cashier  of  the  water  office  of  said  town,  who  shall  account  for 
the  same  as  all  other  receipts  which  come  into  his  hands  belonging 
to  the  water  fund  of  the  town,  and  no  person  shall  receive  such 
license  who  shall  not  have  attained  the  age  of  twenty-one  years, 
and  who  shall  not  furnish  the  board  of  trustees  with  satisfactory 
evidence  of  his  responsibility  and  skill  to  ply  his  trade  in  accordance 
with  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  water  department  and  the 
ordinances  of  the  town. 

§  2.  Every  person  desiring  such  license  shall  file  with  the  town 
clerk  a  petition  in  writing,  giving  the  name  of  the  firm,  if  he  shall 
be  one  of  a  firm,  and  each  member  thereof,  and  place  of  business, 
asking  to  become  a  licensed  plumber,  and  said  petition  shall  be 
accompanied  by  a  bond  signed  by  two  or  more  sureties,  to  be 


PLUMBERS.  125 

approved  by  the  board  of  trustees,  in  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dol- 
lars, conditioned  that  he,  or  they,  will  indemnify  and  save  harmless 
The  Town  of  Lake,  from  all  accidents  and  damages  caused  by  any 
negligence  in  either  the  execution  or  protection  of  his  work,  or  for 
any  unfaithful  or  inadequate  work  done  under  and  by  virtue  of  his 
license;  and  that  said  licensee,  as  such,  will  also  conform  to  all  the 
conditions  and  requirements  of  the  town  for  his  government,  or  in 
default  thereof  will  submit  to  such  penalties  as  are  or  may  be  pre- 
scribed by  the  board  of  trustees  for  the  government  of  licensed 
plumbers. 

§  3.  Any  change  of  the  firm  name  or  location  of  business  must 
be  promptly  reported  to  the  water  superintendent,  and  the  license 
shall  be  kept  in  a  conspicuous  place  at  the  place  of  business. 

§  4.  When  two  or  more  persons  are  co-partners,  licenses  shall 
issue  in  the  name  of  the  firm,  or  co-partnership,  and  no  license  shall 
be  transferable. 

§  5.  Any  plumber  who  shall  be  guilty  of  a  violation  of  any  of 
the  provisions  of  this  chapter  shall  forfeit  his  license  and  shall  be 
subject  to  a  fine,  upon  conviction,  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor 
more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

§  6.  All  licensed  plumbers  shall  be  held  responsible  for  all  acts 
of  their  agents  or  employes  done  by  virtue  of  his  or  their  said 
license.  No  license  shall  be  granted  for  a  greater  period  than  one 
year,  or  the  unexpired  portion  thereof  ;  all  licenses  shall  expire  on 
the  last  day  of  June  of  each  year  unless  sooner  revoked. 

§  7.  All  applications  for  permits  for  the  introduction  or  use  of 
water  shall  be  made  in  writing  upon  the  printed  forms  furnished  by 
the  water  department,  the  blanks  to  be  specifically  and  properly 
filled  in  and  signed  by  the  owner  or  duly  authorized  agent  of  the 
owner,  and  no  work  whatever  shall  be  done  in  the  street,  or  outside 
a  building,  by  any  plumber  or  other  person,  until  after  the  issuance 
of  such  permit.  This  restriction  shall  not  prevent  licensed  plumbers 
or  other  persons  from  rendering  assistance  in  case  of  accident  to 
service  water  pipes,  occurring  at  night,  or  at  any  time  requiring 
immediate  action:  Provided,  /iowez>er,  prompt  report  shall  be  made 
at  the  water  department,  and  a  permit  for  the  occasion  secured. 

§  8.  No  person  except  the  tappers  employed  by  the  water  de- 
partment will  be  permitted  under  any  circumstances  to  tap  the 
street  main,  or  insert  stop-cocks  or  ferrules  therein;  all  service  cocks 


126  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

or  ferrules  must  be  inserted  on  the  side  of  the  street  main,  and 
not  in  any  case  nearer  than  six  inches  from  the  bell  of  the  pipe,  the 
size  of  the  cock  to  be  inserted  shall  be  that  specified  in  the  permit. 

§  9.  Applications  for  permits  to  connect  service-pipe  with  any 
supply-pipe  must  be  made  to  the  superintendent  of  water  works, 
and  the  following  sums  must  be  paid  for  the  insertion  of  the  service 
cocks : 

If  inch  pipe $4.00 

H  inch  pipe 4-5° 

£  inch  pipe 5 .00 

i  inch  pipe 5-5° 

including  the  furnishing  of  the  service  cock,  cast  iron  cover  for  said 
cock,  and  cover  for  s;op-cock  on  sidewalk. 

§  10.  In  making  excavations  in  streets,  alleys  or  highways,  for 
the  laying  of  service  pipes,  or  making  repairs,  or  for  any  other  pur- 
pose, the  paving  material  and  earth  removed  must  be  kept  separate, 
and  deposited  in  a  manner  that  will  occasion  the  least  inconvenience 
to  the  public,  with  provision  for  the  passage  of  water  along  the 
gutter,  and  a  safe  passage  way  for  foot  travel. 

§  ii.  No  lead  pipe  shall  be  used  in  any  work  done  under  the 
authority  of  a  license  issued  by  The  Town  of  Lake,  except  such  as 
is  known  to  the  trade  as  "  strong,"  and  must  weigh  as  follows : 

Half-inch  internal  diameter,  i^  pounds  per  lineal  foot. 
Five-eighths  internal  diameter,  i\  pounds  per  lineal  foot. 
Three-fourths  internal  diameter,  3  pounds  per  lineal  foot. 
One  inch  internal  diameter,  4  pounds  per  lineal  foot. 
One  and  one-fourth  inches  internal  diameter,  4^  pounds  per  lineal  ft. 
One  and  one-half  inches  internal  diameter,  6  pounds  " 

One  and  three-fourths  inches  internal  diameter,  6^  pounds     " 
Two  inches  internal  diameter,  8  pounds  per  lineal  foot. 

No  pipe  shall  be  used  for  the  purpose  of  street  service  of  a  differ- 
ent material  or  size  than  herein  specified,  except  by  special  permit. 

§12.  All  service  pipes  leading  from  the  street  mains  to  the 
building  line  shall,  as  far  as  practicable,  be  laid  in  the  ground  to  a 
depth  of  not  less  than  five  feet,  and  said  pipe  shall  be  laid  in  such 
manner,  and  be  of  such  surplus  length  as  to  prevent  breakage  or 
rupture  by  settlement,  and  all  joints  in  said  pipes  must  be  of  the 
kind  termed  "  plumber  or  wiped  joints."  The  connection  of  pipe 
by  the  so-called  "  cup-joint,"  is  prohibited. 


PLUMBERS.  127 

§  13.  Every  service  pipe  must  be  provided  with  a  stop  and 
waste  cock  for  each  consumer,  easily  accessible,  placed  beyond 
damage  by  frost,  and  so  situated  that  the  water  can  be  conveniently 
shut  off  and  drained  from  the  pipes. 

§14.  Said  stop-cocks,  unless  otherwise  specially  permitted, 
shall  be  connected  to  service  pipes  within  the  sidewalk,  at  or  near 
the  curb  line  of  the  same,  and  be  inclosed  in  and  protected  by  a  cast 
iron  box,  with  a  cover  having  the  letters  T  L,  of  suitable  size,  cast 
thereon;  said  iron  box  must  be  of  form  and  dimensions  satisfactory 
to  the  superintendent  of  public  works,  and  must  extend  from  service 
pipe  to  surface  of  sidewalk,  and  be  of  proper  size  to  admit  a  stop 
key  for  operating  the  stop-cock. 

§15.  Whenever  two  or  more  distinct  buildings  or  premises  are 
to  be  supplied  by  means  of  branch,  or  sub-service  pipes,  supplied  by . 
a  single  tap  in  the  street  main,  each  branch  must  be  independently 
arranged  with  stop-stock  and  box  on  the  curb  line,  in  the  man- 
ner above  prescribed.  All  cocks  used  at  the  sidewalks  by  licensed 
plumbers,  shall  be  of  the  kind  known  as  "  round  water  way." 

§  1 6.  Before  filling  the  trench,  the  service  cock  in  the  street 
main  must  be  covered  with  a  suitable  cast  iron  box  furnished  by  the 
town,  the  earth  must  be  well  rammed  under  the  main,  to  a  level  with 
the  top  thereof,  from  thence  the  trench  must  be  filled  in  layers  of 
not  more  than  twelve  inches  in  depth,  and  each  layer  thoroughly 
rammed  or  puddled  to  prevent  settlement.  This  work,  together 
with  the  replacing  of  sidewalks,  ballast  and  paving  shall  be  done  in 
all  cases  by  the  town.  A  sufficient  amount  must  be  deposited  with 
the  town  before  issuing  the  permit  for  opening  the  street  to  cover 
this  expense. 

§  17.  Plumbers  are  prohibited  from  connecting  pipes  whereby 
steam  boilers  may  be  supplied  with  the  water  direct  with  town 
pressure.  All  such  boilers  shall  be  provided  with  a  tank  or  other 
receptacle  of  sufficient  capacity  to  hold  at  least  six  hours'  supply,  in 
case  of  a  pipe  district  being  shut  off',  to  repair  mains  or  make  con- 
nections or  extensions.  In  such  cases  The  Town  of  Lake  will  not 
be  responsible  for  a  lack  of  water  for  steam  boilers,  or  for  any  other 
purpose. 

§  1 8.  No  alteration  or  addition  whatever,  in  or  about  any  water 
meter,  conduit  pipe,  or  water  cock  in  connection  with  the  water 
supply  to  any  building  or  premises,  shall  be  made  or  caused  to  be 
made  by  any  plumber  or  any  person  whomsoever,  without  first 
obtaining  a  written  permit  so  to  do,  from  the  water  department. 


128  ORDINANCES  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE. 

^  19.  Xo  water  meter  shall  be  connected  with  the  water  supply 
pipes  of  any  building  or  premises,  until  such  meter  shall  be  tested 
and  approved  by  the  water  department  and  a  special  permit 
granted  therefor. 

§  20.  Wherever  any  material  change  is  to  be  made  in  the 
plumbing  \vork,  beyond  that  specified  in  the  permit  therefor,  the 
plumber  is  hereby  required  to  give  previous  notice  to  the  water  de- 
partment, presenting  the  original  permit  for  correction  and  record. 

§  21.  Any  plumber  or  other  person  who  shall  turn  on  the  supply 
of  water  to  any  building  or  premises,  from  which  the  supplv  has 
been  shut  off  by  the  water  department,  on  account  of  non-payment 
of  water  rate,  or  for  any  other  cause,  or  shall  cause  the  same  to  be 
done,  without  having  first  obtained  a  written  permit  for  so  doing, 
shall  be  subject  to  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  ten  -dollars  nor  more 
than  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  22.  No  water  closet,  or  apparatus  of  any  kind  shall  be  con- 
nected with  the  water  supply,  through  which  the  water  will  pass, 
when  such  water  closet  or  apparatus  are  not  in  use,  unless  such  water 
closet  or  apparatus  are  controlled  by  a  water  meter. 

§  23.  All  work  done  by  licensed  plumbers  shall  be  subject  to  the 
inspection,  supervision  and  approval  of  the  water  department,  and 
all  faulty  or  defective  work,  which  may  at  any  time  be  discovered, 
shall  be  made  satisfactory  to  the  water  department,  and  no  further 
permit  will  be  issued  to  the  party  in  default,  until  this  section  shall 
have  been  fully  complied  with. 

§  24.  All  permits  issued  for  anv  work  to  be  done  under  the 
authority  of  this  chapter,  shall  be  returned  to  the  water  department 
within  twenty  four  hours  after  the  work  shall  be  completed,  and 
such  permits  shall  contain  a  written  statement  of  the  tacts  and  the 
time  the  water  was  turned  on  for  use,  which  shall  be  signed  by  such 
plumber. 

§  25.  Any  plumber  whose  license  shall  be  declared  forfeited 
by  the  board  of  trustees  for  a  violation  of  any  provision  of  this 
chapter,  shall  not  again  be  entitled  to  do  work  under  this  chapter, 
unless  said  declaration  of  forfeiture  shall  be  revoked  by  the  said 
board  of  trustees. 


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CHAPTER    XIX. 


SEWERS    AND    DRAINS. 

SECTION  i.  No  connection  with  or  opening  into  any  sewer  or 
drain  shall  be  used  for  the  conveyance  or  discharge  into  said  sewer 
or  drain  of  steam  from  any  steam-boiler  or  engine,  or  from  any  man- 
ufactory or  building  in  which  steam  is  either  generated  or  used, 
under  the  penalty  of  ten  dollars  for  each  "and  every  day  during 
any  part  of  which  such  connection  or  opening  may  have  been  used 
for  that  purpose.  This  penalty  shall  be  i-mposed  upon  and  recovered 
from  the  owner  and  occupants,  severally  and  respectively,  of  such 
manufactory  or  building. 

§  2.  All  connection  with  sewers  or  drains  used  for  the  purpose 
of  carrying  off  animal  refuse  from  water-closets  or  otherwise,  and 
slop  of  kitchens,  shall  have  fixtures  for  a  sufficiency  of  water  to  be 
so  applied  as  to  properly  carry  off  such  matters,  under  the  penalty 
of  five  dollars  for  each  day  the  same  are  permitted  to  remain  with- 
out such  fixtures  for  supplying  said  water. 

§  3.  No  butcher's  offal  or  garbage,  dead  animals  or  obstruc- 
tions of  any  kind  whatsoever,  shall  be  placed,  thrown  or  deposited 
in  any  receiving-basin  or  sewer;  and  any  person  so  offending  or 
causing  any  such  obstruction  or  substance  to  be  placed  so  as  to  be 
carried  into  such  basin  or  sewer  shall  be  subject  to  a  penalty  of  ten 
dollars  for  each  offense;  and  any  person  injuring,  breaking  or  remov- 
ing any  portion  of  any  receiving-basin,  covering-flag,  man-hole,  vent 
or  any  part  of  any  sewer  or  drain,  or  obstructing  the  mouth  of  any 
sewer  or  drain,  shall  be  subject  to  a  penalty  of  twenty  dollars  for 
each  offense;  nor  shall  any  quantity  of  marble  or  other  stone,  iron, 
lead,  timber  or  any  other  substance,  exceeding  one  ton  in  weight,  be 
placed  or  deposited  upon  or  over  any  sewer  or  drain  where  the 
same  shall  be  within  three  feet  of  the  surface  of  the  street,  under  the 
penalty  of  twenty  dollars  for  each  offense,  to  be  recovered  of  the 
person  or  persons  causing  or  permitting  the  same. 

§  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  having  charge  of  the 
cleaning  of  the  streets  in  the  town  to  see  that  the  gutters  are  prop- 
erly scraped  out  before  the  water  is  suffered  to  flow  from  any 
hydrant  for  the  purpose  of  washing  the  same,  in  order  that  no  sub- 


130  ORDINANCES  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE. 

stance  or  obstruction  be  carried  into  any  of  the  receiving-basins; 
every  person  violating  this  section  to  be  subject  to  a  penalty  of  five 
dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  policemen  to  be  vigilant  in  the 
enforcement  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  and  report  any  viola- 
tions thereof  to  the  captain  of  the  police.  Every  policeman,  shall, 
on  observing  or  being  informed  of  the  opening  of  or  excavating  in 
any  street  or  avenue,  require  the  person  making  such  opening  or 
excavation  to  exhibit  to  him  the  authority  or  permission  for  such 
opening;  and  if  none  has  been  given  by  the  proper  officer,  or  if  the 
exhibition  thereof  be  refused,  said  captain  of  police  shall  without 

delay  report  the  same  to  the  superintendent  of  public  works. 

• 

§  6.  Any  person  who  shall  uncover  or  excavate  under  or 
around  the  brick  or  pipe  sewers  in  this  town,  for  any  purpose  what- 
ever, without  the  written  consent  of  said  superintendent,  shall  be 
subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  and  not  exceeding  fifty 
dollars;  the  person  or  persons  by  whom  the  work  is  done,  and  their 
employers,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  violation  of  this  section. 

£  7.  Any  person  who  shall  lay,  alter  or  disturb  any  part  of  a 
house  drain  or  drains,  catch-basin  or  strainer  of  said  drain  or  drains, 
cess-pool  or  water-closet,  connected  with  any  brick  or  pipe  sewer 
belonging  to  said  town,  without  being  duly  licensed  to  perform  the 
same  by  said  superintendent,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
ten  dollars  and  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars  for  each  offense,  which 
shall  be  recoverable  against  the  person  or  persons  performing  the 
work,  or  their  employers. 

§8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  any  person  or  persons  construct- 
ing or  using  any  private  drain,  sewer,  cess-pool,  water-closet  pipe 
or  other  pipe  connecting  with  or  emptying  into  any  brick  or  pipe 
drain  or  sewer  belonging  to  said  town,  to  construct  and  use  the  same 
strictly  in  conformity  with  the  orders  and  directions  of  the  superin- 
tendent, which  orders  and  directions  shall  be  given  in  writing  for 
such  purpose ;  and  any  person  who  shall  construct  or  use,  or  cause 
to  be  constructed  or  used,  any  such  drain,  sewer,  cess-pool  or 
water-closet  pipe  in  a  different  manner  from  that  so  ordered  and 
directed  by  said  superintendent,  or  in  violation  of  the  orders  of  said 
superintendent,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars, 
which  shall  be  recoverable  against  the  person  or  persons  so  con- 
structing or  using  said  sewer,  drain  or  pipe,  or  their  employers,  and 
the  owner  of  the  lot  or  lots  or  premises  in  which  said  work  is  con- 
structed or  used,  shall  be  deemed  and  considered  as  authorizing  such 
construction  or  use  and  liable  to  such  penalty. 


SEWERS  AND  DRAINS.  13! 

8  9.  That  the  public  sewers  of  the  town  may  be  fully  protected 
against  improper  use  and  injury,  the  said  superintendent  and  his  au- 
thorized agents  shall  have  free  and  unobstructed  access  to  any  part 
of  the  premises  where  house  drains,  cess-pools  or  water-closets,  con- 
nected with  or  draining  into  said  sewers,  are  laid,  for  the  purpose  of 
examining  the  construction,  condition  and  usage  of  the  same,  and 
making  necessary  alterations  or  repairs,  at  any  time  of  the  day  be- 
tween the  hours  of  seven  o'clock  A.  M.  and  six  o'clock  p.  M.  ;  and 
any  owner,  occupant  or  other  person,  on  refusing  to  allow  any  offi- 
cer or  agent  of  said  superintendent  access  to  the  premises  for  such 
purposes,  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor 
exceeding  fifty  dollars. 

§  10.  Any  person  desiring  to  do  business  in  connection  with  the 
sewers  and  drains  of  The  Town  of  Lake  as  a  sewer  builder  shall 
first  obtain  a  license  as  such  sewer  builder  from  the  board  of  trustees 
and  shall  pay  a  fee  of  fifteen  dollars  therefor,  which  fee  shall  be  paid 
to  the  cashier  of  the  sewer  office  of  said  town,  who  shall  account 
for  the  same  as  all  other  receipts  which  come  into  his  hands  belong- 
ing to  the  sewer  fund  of  the  town,  and  no  person  shall  receive  such 
license  who  shall  not  have  attained  the  age  of  twenty-one  years, 
and  who  shall  not  furnish  the  board  of  trustees  with  satisfactory 
evidence  of  his  responsibility  and  skill  to  apply  his  trade  in  accord- 
ance with  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  sewer  department  and 
the  ordinances  of  the  town. 

§  ii.  Every  person  desiring  such  license  shall  file  with  the  town 
clerk  a  petition  in  writing,  giving  the  name  of  the  firm,  if  he  shall 
be  one  of  a  firm,  and  each  member  thereof,  and  place  of  business, 
asking  to  become  a  licensed  sewer  builder,  and  said  petition  shall 
be*  accompanied  by  ?  bond  signed  by  two  or  more  sureties,  to  be 
approved  by  the  board  of  trustees,  in  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dol- 
lars, cpnditioned  that  he,  or  they,  will  indemnify  and  save'harmless 
The  Town  of  Lake  from  all  accidents  and  damages  caused  by  any 
negligence  in  either  the  execution  or.  protection  of  his  work,  or  for 
any  unfaithful  or  inadequate  work  done  under  and  by  virtue  of  his 
license;  and  that  said  licensee,  as  such,  will  also  conform  to  all  the 
conditions  and  requirements  of  the  town  for  his  government,  or  in 
default  thereof  will  submit  to  such  penalties  as  are  or  may  be  pre- 
scribed by  the  board  of  trustees  for  the  government  of  licensed 
sewer  builders. 

§   12.     Any   change  of   the   firm  name  or  location  of   business 
must  be  promptly  reported  to  the  superintendent,  and  the  license 
shall  be  kept  in   a  conspicuous  place  at  the  place  of  business. 
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132  ORDINANCES  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE. 

§  13.  When  two  or  more  persons  are  co-partners,  licenses  shall 
issue  in  the  name  of  the  firm,  or  co-partnership,  and  no  license  shall 
be  transferable. 

§  14.  Any  sewer  builder  who  shall  be  guilty  of  a  violation  of 
any  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  shall  forfeit  his  license  and  shall 
be  subject  to  a  fine,  upon  conviction,  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor 
more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

§  15.  All  licensed  sewer  builders  shall  be  held  responsible  for 
all  acts  of  their  agents  or  employes  done  by  virtue  of  his  or  their 
said  license.  No  license  shall  be  granted  for  a  greater  period 
than  one  year,  or  the  unexpired  portion  thereof;  all  licenses 
shall  expire  on  the  last  day  of  June  of  each  year  unless  sooner 
revoked. 

§  16.  Applications  for  permits  to  connect  with  the  sewers  of 
The  Town  of  .Lake  must  be  made  by  the  owners  of  the  property 
to  be  drained,  or  by  their  authorized  agents,  and  must  be  accom- 
panied by  a  clear  description  of  the  premises,  and  detailed  plan  of 
the  location  and  size  of  the  drain  pipes,  water  closets,  sinks,  traps, 
catch-basins,  and  other  fixtures  connected  with  the  same,  which  plan 
must  be  made  on  the  back  of  the  application  and  approved  by  the 
superintendent  or  engineer  before  a  permit  can  be  granted.  No 
change  from  the  plan  filed  with  the  application  for  a  permit  shall  be 
made  by  the  drain  layer  without  the  permission  of  the  superintendent 
or  engineer,  and  the  change  made  upon  said  plan. 

§17.  All  sewers  and  drain  pipes  laid  in  The  Town  of  Lake  for 
the  purpose  of  connecting  the  same  with  the  public  sewers,  must  be 
constructed  in  accordance  with  the  following  rules  and  regulations 
and  it  is  hereby  mide  the  duty  of  the  superintendent  of  the  sewer 
department  to  enforce  the  same. 

(1)  At  least  twenty-four  hours'  notice  must  be  given  at  the  su- 
perintendent's office  before  any  street  or  public  way  shall  be  opened 
for  the  purpose  of  laying  a  private  drain.     Should   the   drain  layer 
be  prevented  by  bad  weather,  or  any  other  good  cause,  from  exe- 
cuting the  work  at  the  time  notified,  he  is  required  to  report  the  fact 
to  said  office  forthwith,  and  appoint  another  time;  for  doing  the  work. 

(2)  No  drain  pipe  shall  be  extended  from  the  work  previously 
done  and  accepted,  or  new  connections  of  any  kind  be  made  with 
such  work,  unless  previous  notice  of  at  least  twenty-four  hours  is 
given  to  the  superintendent. 

(3)  No  work  of  laying  drains  shall  be  commenced  or  continued 
without  the  permit  is  on  the  ground  in  the  hands  of  the  drain  layer 
or  of  one  employed  by  him. 


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133 


(4)  No  drain  layer  shall  allow  his  name  to  be  used  by  any  other 
person  or  party,  either  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  permits  or  doing 
work  under  his  license. 

(5)  In  opening  any  street  or  other  public  way  all  materials  for 
paving  or  ballasting  must  be  removed  with  the  least  possible  injury 
or  loss  of  the  same,  and  together  with  the  excavated  material  from 
the  trenches,  must  be  placed  where  they  will  cause  the  least  practi- 
cable inconvenience  to  the  public;  as  little  as  possible  of  the  trench 
must  be  dug  till  the  junction  piece  in  the  sewer  is  found,  unless  it  is 
first  determined  to  make  a  new  opening  into  the  sewer. 

(6)  Whenever  the  sides  of  the  trenches  will  not  stand  perpen- 
dicular, sheeting  and  braces  must  be  used  to  prevent  unnecessary 
caving. 

(7)  No  pipes    or  other  materials  for  the  drains  shall  be  used 
until    they  have   been   approved  by    the  superintendent  of  public 
works,  the  town  engineer,  or  a  duly  authorized  inspector. 

(8)  The  least  inclination  that  shall  be  allowed  for  water-closet, 
kitchen,  and  all   other  drains  of  not  over  six  inches  in  diameter, 
liable  to  receive  solid  substances,  is  one-half  inch  in  two  feet,  and  for 
cellar  and  all  other  drains  to  receive  water  only,  one-quarter  inch 
in  two  feet.     All  drains  to  be  laid  at  a  grade  of  not  over  one-half 
inch  in  two  feet  between  the   sewer  and  the  sidewalk;    the  grade 
to  be  continued  from  the  sidewalk  or  curb  line   to  all  connecting 
•catch-basins  at  one-half  inch  in  two  feet,  unless  written  permission 
is  first  obtained  from  the  owner  to  raise  said  grade. 

(9)  The  ends  of  all  pipes  not  to  be  immediately  connected  with 
water-closets,  sinks,  down-spouts,  or  catch-basins,  must  be  securely 
guarded  against    the    introduction  of,  sand  or  earth    by  brick  or 
cement,  or  other  water-tight  and  imperishable  materials. 

(10)  All  pipes  that  must  be  left  open  to  drain  cellars,  areas,  yards 
or  gardens,  must  be  connected  with  suitable  catch-basins  of  brick,  the 
bottom  of  which  must  not  be  less  than  two  and  one  half  feet  below 
the  bottom  of  the  outlet  pipe,  the '  diameter  not  less  than  four  feet, 
and  the  form    and    construction  of    which    shall  be  prescribed  by 
the  superintendent  of    public  works  or  engineer.     When  packing- 
houses, butcher-shops,  lard-rendering  establishments,  hotels  and  eat- 
ing-houses are  connected   with  the  sewers,  the  dimensions  of  the 
catch  basins  will  be  required  of  a  larger  size,  according  to  the  cir- 
cumstances of    the   case.     When  the  end  of  a  drain   pipe  is  con- 
nected with  a  catch  basin  for  draining  foundations  during  the  erec- 
tion of  buildings,  the  drain  layer  will  be  held  responsible  that  no  dirt 
or  sand  is  carried  into  the  drain  or  sewer  from  such  catch  basin. 


134  ORDINANCES  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE. 

• 

(n)  All  catch  basins  and  catch  basin  connections  must  be  made 
in  the  same  manner  and  style  as  represented  by  plan  on  file  in  the 
engineer's  office,  and  in  accordance  with  accompanying  specifications. 

(12)  No  catch  basin  shall  be  built  in  the  public  street,  but  must 
be  placed  inside  the  line  of  the  lot  to  be  drained,  except  when  the 
sidewalks  are  excavated  and  used  as  vaults. 

(13)  No  privy  vaults  shall  be  connected  with  the  sewers,  except 
through  an  intervening  catch  basin,  and  the  discharge  pipe  of  the 
vault  must  be  high  enough  above  its  bottom  to  prevent  anything  but 
the  liquid  contents  of  the  vault  from  passing  into  the  drain. 

(14)  The  inside  of  every  drain  after  it  is  laid  must  be  left  smooth 
and  perfectly  clean  throughout  its  entire  length. 

(15)  In  case  it  shall  be  necessary  to  connect  a  drain  pipe  with  a. 
public  sewer  where  no  junction  is  left  in  the  public   sewer  the  new 
connection  with  the  public  sewer  shall  only  be  made  either  by  one  of 
the  employes  of  the  town,  or  when  the  superintendent,  engineer  or 
an  inspector  is  present  to  see  the  entire  work  done. 

(16)  Whenever  it  is  necessary   to  disturb   a  wooden    drain  in 
actual  use,  it  must  in  no  case  be  obstructed  without  the  special  direc- 
tion of  one  of  the  town  officers.     No  pipe  drain  shall  be  laid  above 
the  bottom  of  a  wooden  drain,  whether  in  actual  use  or  not,  unless 
the  pipe  is  made  to  rest  on  puddled  earth,  brick  or  stone.     In  no  case 
will  it  be  allowed  to  let  drain  pipes  rest  on  wood  or  other  perishable 
material. 

(17)  The  back  filling  over  drains  after  they  are  laid  must  be 
puddled,  and  together  with  the  replacing  of  ballast  and  paving  must 
be  done  so  as  to  make  them  at  least  as  good  as  they  were  before 
they  were  disturbed,  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  superintendent  of 
public  works,  and  the  drain-layer  will  be  held  responsible  for  any 
subsequent  settlement  of  the  ground;  all  water  and  gas  pipes  must 
be  protected  from  injury  or  settling. 

(18)  Every  pipe  layer  licensed  by  the  town  must  inclose  any 
opening  which  he  may  make  in  the   public  streets  or  alleys  with 
sufficient  barriers,  and  must  maintain  lamps  at  the  same  at  night, 
and  must  take  all  other  necessaiy  precautions  to  guard  the  public 
effectually  against  all  accidents  from  the  beginning  to  the  end  of  the 
work,  and  shall  only  lay  drains  on  the  condition  that  he  is  to  be  held 
liable  for  all  damages  that  may  result  from  his  neglect  of  any  nec- 
essary precaution  against  accidents  to  persons,  horses,  vehicles  or 
property  of  any  kind. 

(19)  In  case  a  water  or  gas  pipe  should  come  in  the  way  of  a 
drain,  the  question  of  passing  over  or  under  the  water  or  gas  pipe 
or  of  raising  or  lowering  it,  must  be  determined  by  the  proper  town 


SEWERS    AND    DRAINS SIDEWALKS.  135 

•officer.     In  no  case  shall  the  pipe  layer  be  allowed  to  decide  the  ques- 
tion himself. 

(20)  No  exhaust  from  steam  engines  shall  be  connected  with  the 
public  or  private  drains,  and  no  blow-oft'  from  steam  boilers  shall  be 
so  connected  without  special  permission  from  the  superintendent  of 
public  works. 

(21)  Such  information  as  the  town  has  with  regard  to  the  posi- 
tion of  junctions  will  be  furnished  to  the  drain  layers,  but   at  their 
risk  as  to  the  accuracy  of  the  same. 

(22)  Whenever  a  change  of  the  direction  of  the  pipe   is   made, 
either  in  a  horizontal  or  vertical  direction,  curves  must  be  used:  No 
pipe  shall  be  clipped  in  any  case. 

(23)  A  double  house  or  two  houses  adjoining  may  be  connected 
•with  a  single  service  main  to  the  sewer,  where  the  property  is  owned 
by  one  party,  but  in  no  case  will  the  drain  be  placed  on  the  line  be- 
tween the  lots. 


CHAPTER     XX. 


SIDEWALKS. 

SECTION  i.  All  sidewalks  hereafter  ordered  by  the  board  to  be 
laid,  shall  be  constructed  in  the  manner  following,  to  wit  (unless 
otherwise  provided  by  special  ordinance):  of  first  rate  common 
plank,  sawed  to  a  uniform  length  of  six  feet,  laid  upon  three  two  by 
six  stringers,  the  ends  of  which  shall  rest  upon  and  be  nailed  to 
<:ross  bearings,  two  by  six  inches,  and  not  less  than  six  feet  long, 
with  good  and  sufficient  bearings  between,  and  the  plank  shall  be 
nailed  with  not  less  than  nine  thirty-penny  nails  to  every  lineal  foot, 
all  work  and  material  to,  be  first  class. 

§  2.  All  street  crossings  hereafter  to  be  laid  by  the  board  shall 
be  constructed  in  the  manner  following,  to  wit:  from  the  street  lines 
on  each  side,  twenty-two  feet  across  the  ditches  shall  be  constructed 
in  the  same  manner  as  the  walk  with  which  said  crossings  connect, 
and  the  balance  across  the  road-bed  shall  be  two  feet  wide  and  be 
constructed  of  two  three  by  twelve  inch  planks,  laid  lengthwise, 
resting  upon  four  bearings  and  strongly  nailed,  all  work  and  mate- 
rial to  be  first  class. 

§  3.  That  the  cost  and  expense  of  constructing  the  sidewalks 
ordered  in  accordance  with  sections  one  and  two  of  this  chapter. 


136  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

shall  be  defrayed  by  a  special  assessment  upon  the  property  espec- 
ially benefited  thereby  to  the  extent  of  such  special  benefits,  said 
special  assessments  to  be  made  and  levied  under,  and  in  conformity 
to  the  laws  of  the  State  of  Illinois  in  such  case  made  and  provided, 
and  the  residue  of  the  costs  and  expense  of  such  improvement,  if 
any,  shall  be  paid  by  a  general  tax. 

§  4.  On  all  "  streets,"  "  avenues,"  "  places,"  or  "  courts,"  the 
following,  upon  each  side  of  said  highways,  are  designated  for  side- 
walks and  grounds  for  adornment  at  which  distances  curb-stones 
may  be  set;  on  highways  one  hundred  feet  wide,  twenty-four  feet;. 
eighty  feet  wide,  eighteen  feet;  sixty-six  feet  wide,  fourteen  feet. 

§  5.  The  grades  for  sidewalks  shall  be  given  by  the  engineer 
until  a  permanent  grade  shall  be  established  by  the  board  of  trustees.. 
If  any  person  shall  build  or  assist  in  building  any  sidewalk  where 
no  grade  has  been  established,  without  first  obtaining  a  grade  there- 
for from  the  engineer,  or  contrary  to  any  grade  which  may  be 
obtained  from  said  department,  or  shall  build  or  assist  in  building 
any  sidewalk  contrary  to  any  grade  which  may  have  been  or  may 
be  established  by  the  board  of  trustees,  or  contrary  to  any  of  the 
provisions  of  this  chapter,  he  shall,  in  either  case,  be  subject  to  a, 
penalty  of  ten  dollars  for  every  offense,  and  to  a  like  penalty  for  every 
day  he  shall  fail  to  remove  or  reconstruct  the  same  after  notice  by 
the  engineer  to  remove  or  reconstruct  the  same. 

§  6.  Sidewalks  shall  be  constructed  so  as  to  incline  upwards 
from  the  outer  edge  of  the  sidewalk  towards  the  buildings  or 
boundary  of  the  lot  at  the  rate  of  one  inch  in  three  feet,  and  no  part 
of  said  sidewalk  shall-  be  taken  for  private  use  by  lowering  or 
cutting  down  the  same  next  to  the  building,  or  railing  oft'  the  same 
by  any  wooden  or  iron,  railing,  or  by  shutting  oft"  the  public  from 
passing  along  and  over  the  same,  and  said  sidewalks  shall  not  be 
raised  up  next  to  the  building  by  constructing  a  platform  or  platforms 
on  the  same,  of  either  wood,  iron  or  stone,  but  said  sidewalks  shall 
be  built  flush  up  to  the  building  on  a  uniform  grade  as  herein 
provided.  Entrances  to  areas  and  basements  and  flights  of  stairs  or 
steps  may  be  made  which  shall  not  extend  into  or  onto  the  sidewalk 
more  than  two  feet  next  to  the  building,  and  the  width  of  the  steps, 
stairs  or  entrance  to  areas  and  basements  in  sidewalks  shall  not  be 
more  than  four  feet.  Said  steps,  stairs  or  entrances  shall  be  securely 
protected,  and  no  open  space  next  to  the  building  other  than  entrance 
ways  to  areas  and  basements  forming  a  portion  of  the  sidewalk  shall 
be  allowed. 

§  7.     No  part  or  portion  of  any  sidewalk   where   the   grade   has 
been  established  shall  be  laid  or  relaid  at  any  different  grade  or  any: 


SIDEWALKS.  137 

other  level  than  the  adjacent  portions  of  said  sidewalk,  and  for  every 
violation  of  this  section,  there  is  hereby  imposed  upon  the  person 
violating  the  same  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than 
twenty  dollars,  and  said  sidewalk  shall  be  so  altered  as  to  conform 
to  the  established  grade,  and  unless  the  said  sidewalk  be  so  altered 
within  five  days  after  notice  from  the  engineer,  it  shall  be  lawful  for 
said  engineer  to  alter  the  same,  and  the  costs  and  expense  thereof 
may  be  recovered  from  said  owner,  in  an  action  in  the  name  of  the 
town. 

§  8.  No  person  shall  extend  or  build  any  sidewalk  beyond  the 
established  width,  and  on  all  streets  where  courts  or  open  spaces 
are  allowed  for  planting  trees,  or  for  grass  plats,  the  same  shall  not 
be  covered  with  plank,  except  such  parts  and  portions  of  said  space 
as  may  be  allowed  to  be  used  for  coal  vaults. 

§  9.  Every  opening  in  any  vault  or  coal  hole  or  aperture  in  the 
sidewalk  over  said  coal  hole  or  vault,  shall  be  covered  with  a  sub- 
stantial iron  plate  with  a  rough  surface  to  prevent  accidents,  and  the 
entire  construction  of  said  coal  holes  and  vaults  shall  be  subject  to  the 
directions  and  supervision  of  the  engineer,  or  such  other  person  as 
the  board  of  trustees  may  designate. 

§  10.  The  owner  and  tenant  of  the  abutting  estate,  in  front  of 
which  any  coal  hole  or  vault  is  permitted  to  be  constructed,  shall 
be  held  responsible  to  the  town  for  any  and  all  damages  to  persons 
or  property  in  consequence  of  any  defect  in  the  construction  of  such 
vault  or  coal  hole,  or  for  allowing  the  same  or  any  portion  thereof 
to  remain  out  of  repair,  and  such  owner  and  tenant  shall  be  required 
to  keep  the  said  vault  or  coal  hole,  its  walls  and  coverings,  in  good 
order  at  all  times. 

§11.  The  occupant  of  any  estate  abutting  on  such  a  vault  or 
coal  hole  shall  be  held  responsible  to  the  town  for  any  and  all  dam- 
ages occasioned  to  persons  or  property  in  consequence  of  the  aper- 
ture in  the  si'dewalk  being  left  exposed  and  uncovered,  or  from  the 
covering  thereof  being  left  insecure  or  unfastened;  and  said  occupant 
shall  be  required  to  keep  siich  coal  hole  or  vault  cover  in  good  order, 
and  safe  for  public  travel  over  the  same. 

§12.  No  person  shall  remove  or  insecurely  fix,  or  cause  or  pro- 
cure or  suffer  or  permit  to  be  removed  or  to  be  insecurely  fixed,  so 
that  the  same  can  be  moved  in  its  bed,  any  grate  or  covering  of  any 
coal  hole,  vault  or  chute  under  any  street,  sidewalk  or  other  public 
place,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  for  each  offense: 
Provided,  that  nothing  herein  contained  shall  prevent  the  owner  or 


138  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

occupant  of  the  building  with  which  such  shall  be  connected  from 
removing  such  grate  or  covering  for  the  proper  purpose  of  such 
coal  hole,  vault  or  chute,  provided  he  enclose  such  opening  or  aper- 
ture, and  keep  the  same  enclosed  while  such  grate  or  covering 
shall  be  removed,  with  a  strong  box  or  curb  at  least  twelve  inches 
high,  firmly  and  securely  made:  And  provided,  further,  that  he 
shall  not  remove  such  grate  or  covering  until  after  sunrise  of  any 
day,  and  shall  replace  such  grate  or  covering  before  one-half  hour 
after  sunset. 

§  13.  No  boiler,  steam-shaft,  furnace  or  steam  pipe  or  cess-pool, 
shall  be  constructed  or  located  for  use,  and  no  explosive  substance 
or  inflammable  oil  or  substance  shall  be  stored  or  kept  for  any 
purpose  under  any  sidewalk  in  this  town,  and  no  excavation  when 
permitted  shall  be  ventilated  into  the  streets,  unless  the  aperture 
or  ventilating  hole  or  opening  shall  be  securely  covered  as  herein 
provided. 

§14.  Whenever  any  coal  hole  or  vault  under  any  sidewalk,  or  any 
aperture  constructed  therein,  is  not  covered  or  secured  as  herein  pro- 
vided, or,  in  the  opinion  of  the  superintendent  of  public  works,  is  un- 
safe or  inconvenient  for  the  public  travel,  said  superintendent  may  order 
the  same  to  be  removed  and  a  suitable  one  put  in  its  place;  and 
if  the  same  shall  not  be  done  within  two  days  from  the  service 
of  said  order  on  the  owner  or  tenant  of  the  premises,  or  other 
person  having  the  care  thereof,  the  superintendent  may  make  such 
change,  and  the  expense  thereof  shall  be  paid  by  such  owner,  tenant, 
or  other  person  having  the  care  of  the  premises ;  and  no  person  shall 
leave  such  coal  hole,  excavation,  or  aperture  open  or  unfastened 
after  sunset,  nor  in  the  day  time,  unless  while  in  use  by  some  per- 
son or  persons  actually  attending  the  same. 

§  15.  Whenever  the  owner  or  occupant  of  real  estate  in  The 
Town  of  Lake  shall  be  notified  by  the  superintendent  to  raise,  lower, 
repair  or  relay  any  sidewalk,  or  to  raise,  lower,  repair  or  cleanse 
any  private  drain  in  front  of,  adjacent  to,  or  upon  any  premises  owned 
or  occupied  by  him,  it  shall  be  the  duty,  of  such  owner  or  occupant 
to  cause  the  said  improvement  to  be  made  in  the  manner  and 
within  the  time  prescribed  by  the  superintendent.  If  any  such 
owner  or  occupant  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  comply  with  any 
such  requirement,  he  shall  be  subject  to  a  penalty  of  not  less  than 
one  dollar  nor  more  than  ten  dollars  for  each  day's  neglect. 

§  1 6.  Hereafter  no  person  shall  construct  or  place,  or  cause  to 
be  constructed  or  placed,  any  portico,  porch,  door,  window  .or 
step  which  shall  project  into  or  over  any  street  or  sidewalk  in 


SIDEWALKS.  139 

such  manner  as  to  obstruct  free  passage  along  the  same,  under  a 
penalty  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars 
for  each  offense,  and  a  like  penalty  for  every  day  that  the  said 
portico,  porch,  door,  window  or  step  may  be  continued  as  aforesaid. 

§17.  No  street,  alley,  or  sidewalk  shall  be  used  for  the  storage 
of  goods,  wares,  or  merchandise  of  any  kind  or  description  what- 
•ever,  and  which  shall  occupy  a  greater  space  than  three  feet  next 
the  building  or  boundary  line  of  his  or  her  lot ;  and  if  any  person 
shall  place  or  cause  to  be  placed  in  or  upon  any  street,  alley,  or  side- 
walk, any  barrel,  box,  hogshead,  crate,  package,  or  any  matter  or 
thing  whatever,  which  shall  take  up  more  space '  than  three  feet 
next  to  the  building,  and  shall  suffer  the  same  to  remain  thereon 
more  than  six  hours,  he  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less 
than  five  nor  more  than  ten  dollars,  and  any  policeman  or  public 
officer  shall  be  empowered  to  cause  the  same  to  be  removed  at 
the  expense  of  the  party  placing  the  same  there,  and  the  said  party 
shall  also  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  one  dollar  an  hour  for  each  and 
every  hour  that  said  goods,  wares,  merchandise,  matters  or  things 
remain  there  after  the  expiration  of  six  hours. 

§  1 8.  All  awnings  hereafter* erected  shall  be  elevated  at  least 
eight  feet  at  the  lowest  part  thereof  above  the  top  of  the  sidewalk, 
and  shall  not  project  over  the  sidewalk  to  exceed  three-fourths  of 
the  width  thereof;  they  shall  be  supported  without  posts  by  iron 
brackets  or  by  an  iron  frame  work  attached  firmly  to  the  building,  so 
as  to  leave  the  sidewalk  wholly  unobstructed  thereby.  All  awnings 
heretofore  erected  in  a  different  manner  shall  be  removed  in  a. 
reasonable  time  after  notice,  as  hereinafter  specified.  If  any  person 
shall  erect  an}'  awning  contrary  to  the  provisions  hereof,  or  shall 
refuse  or  neglect  forthwith  to  remove  any  awning  or  awning  posts 
after  written  notice  to  remove  the  same,  to  be  given  by  the  super- 
visor, he  shall  be  subjected  to  a  penalty  of  five  dollars  for  every  such 
offense,  and  to  a  further  penalty  of  five  dollars  for  every  day  he  shall 
fail  to  comply  with  such  notice,  after  a  lapse  of  five  days  from  the 
service  thereof. 

§  19.  No  person  shall  at  any  time  fasten  any  horse  or  horses  in 
such  a  way  that  the  horse,  vehicle,  reins  or  line,  shall  be  an  obstacle 
to  the  free  use  of  the  sidewalk,  under  a  penalty  of  one  dol]ar  for  each 
offense,  and  the  person  in  whose  possession  or  use  such  horse  or 
horses  shall  then  be  shall  be  deemed  the  offender,  unless  he  can 
prove  the  contrary  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  magistrate  before  whom 
he  shall  be  prosecuted. 

.  §  20.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  owners  of  each  building  in  front 
of  which  any  sidewalk  is  now  or  shall   hereafter  be  constructed  to 


140  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

provide  and  securely  fasten  in  such  sidewalk,  one  iron  ring  of  not  less; 
than  two  inches  in  diameter  and  one-quarter  of  an  inch  in  thickness,, 
at  some  one  point,  or  erect  a  suitable  post  for  hitching  in  every 
twenty-five  feet  of  such  sidewalk.  Every  person  who  shall  will- 
fully violate  or  neglect  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  section,, 
shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  two  or  more  than  ten  dollars. 

§  21.  Any  person  who  shall  keep  or  leave  open  any  cellar  door, 
or  grating  of  any  vault  on  any  highway  or  sidewalk,  or  suffer  the 
same  to  be  left  or  kept  open,  or  who  shall  suffer  any  sidewalk  in 
front  of  his  premises  to  become  or  continue  so  broken  as  to  endan- 
ger life  or  limb,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  exceeding  fifty  dol- 
lars in  every  case.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  policemen  to  take  note 
of  all  defects  in  sidewalks,  and  when  out  of  repair,  notify  owners  or 
occupants  of  premises  in  front  of  which  said  sidewalks  are,  and  also- 
report  the  same  to  the  department  of  public  works  and  see  to  the 
enforcement  of  this  chapter. 

§  22.  No  person  while  receiving  or  delivering  goods,  wares  or 
merchandise  shall  permit  the  same  to  remain  on  any  sidewalk  longer 
than  two  hours,  and  for  this  purpose  he  shall  occupy  only  so  much 
of  the  outer  edge  of  the  sidewalk  in  front  of  his  store  or  building  as 
will  leave  an  unoccupied  space  of  four  feet  in  width  of  such  side- 
walk for  the  use  of  pedestrians. 

§  23.  No  person  or  persons  shall  push  or  back  any  horse,  wagon,, 
cart  or  other  vehicle  over  any  sidewalk,  or  use,  ride  or  drive  any 
horse,  wagon,  sled  or  sleigh  thereon,  unless  it  be  in  crossing  the 
same  to  go  into  a  yard  or  lot  where  no  other  suitable  crossing  or 
means  of  access  is  provided,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  one 
dollar  nor  more  than  ten  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  24.  All  crosswalks  in  the  town  shall  be  kept  reserved  free 
from  any  sleighs,  wagons,  carts  or  carriages,  or  horses  or  other 
animals  being  placed  or  suffered  to  stand  thereon,  except  so  far  as 
may  be  necessary  in  crossing  the  same ;  and  the  owner  or  driver  of 
any  sleigh,  wagon,  cart  or  other  carriage,  or  horse  or  other  animal, 
offending  herein  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  three  dollars. 

§  25.  No  person  shall  lead,  drive  or  ride  any  horse,  or  drag  any 
wheel  or  hand  barrow,  or  saw  any  wood,  or  lay  or  place  any  wood, 
coal  or  other  thing,  or  any  goods,  wares  or  merchandise,  or  any  other 
article  whatsoever,  upon  any  footpath  or  sidewalk,  except  in  accord- 
ance with  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  under  the  penalty  of  'five 
dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  26.  No  velocipede  or  bicycle  shall  be  used  or  rode  along  or  upon 
any  sidewalk  under  the  penalty  of  two  dollars  for  each  offense. 


SIDEWALKS.  141 

§  27.  No  owner  or  occupant  of  any  store  or  house  shall  permit 
or  suffer  any  cart  or  other  wheel  carriage  to  be  driven  or  otherwise 
to  pass  or  go  over  or  upon  the  footpath  or  sidewalk  opposite  to  such 
house  or  store  for  the  purpose  of  loading  or  unloading  such  cart  or 
other  wheel  carriage,  or  for  any  other  purpose  whatever  under  the 
penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  28.  If  any  cartman  or  other  person  shall  break  or  otherwise- 
injure  any  footpath  or  sidewalk,  he  or  they  shall,  within  twenty-four 
hours  thereafter,  cause  the  same  to  be  well  and  sufficiently  repaired 
and  amended,  under  the  penalty  of  ten  dollars. 

§  29.  The  superintendent  or  any  public  officer,  is  authorized  to 
cause  any  obstruction,  encroachment,  article  or  thing  which  may  be 
in  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  to  be  removed 
within  a  reasonable  time  after  notice  served  upon  the  owner, 
agent  or  person  in  possession  of  the  premises  where  such  violation 
occurs,  or  in  case  the  owner,  agent  or  person  in  possession  cannot 
be  found,  then  by  posting  such  notice  upon  the  premises  or  sidewalk 
in  front  thereof,  and  the  owner,  agent  or  party  causing  such 
violation  shall  pay  all  expenses  and  costs  of  such  removal  in  addition 
to  the  penalties  aforesaid.  And  any  person  who  shall  wrongfully 
interfere  with  such  removal,  shall  suffer  a  penalty  of  not  less  than 
ten  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

§  30.  Every  owner  or  occupant  of  any  house  or  other  building, 
and  the  owner  or  proprietor,  lessee  or  person  entitled  to  the  posses- 
sion of  any  vacant  lot,  and  every  person  having  the  charge  of  any 
church,  jail  or  public  hall  or  public  building  in  this  town,  shall,, 
during  the  winter  season,  and  during  the  time  snow  shall  continue 
on  the  ground,  by  nine  o'clock  on  every  morning  when  necessary, 
clear  the  sidewalks  and  gutters  in  front  of  such  house  or  other  build- 
ing, and  in  front  of  such  lot,  from  snow  and  ice,  and  keep  them  con- 
veniently free  therefrom  during  the  day;  or  shall,  in  case  the  snow 
and  ice  are  so  congealed  that  they  cannot  be  removed  without 
injury  to  the  pavement,  cause  the  said  snow  and  ice  to  be  strewed 
with  ashes  or  sand;  and  shall  also,  at  all  times,  keep  such  sidewalks 
clear  and  free  from  all  dirt,  filth,  or  other  obstructions  or  incuny- 
brances,  so  as  to  allow  citizens  to  use  the  said  sidewalks  in  an  easy  and 
commodious  manner;  and  every  person  neglecting  or  refusing  to 
comply  with  this  section,  shall  incur  a  penalty  of  two  dollars  for  each 
neglect  or  refusal. 

§31.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  policemen  to  report  to  the  de- 
partment of  public  works  all  defects  in  sidewalks,  and  in  case  of 
accident,  they  shall  report  the  same  to  the  town  attorney,  together 
with  the  names  of  any  witnesses  to  said  accident,  if  known  to  them. 


142  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 


CHAPTER     XXI. 


SIGNS. 

SECTION  i.  No  person  shall  place  or  cause  to  be  placed,  or  sus- 
pend or  cause  to  be  suspended,  from  any  house,  shop,  store,  lot 
or  place,  over  or  into  any  street  or  sidewalk,  a"y  goods,  wares  or  mer- 
chandise, whatever,  or  signs  or  any  other  thing,  so  that  the  same 
shall  project  from  the  wall  or  front  of  said  house,  shop,  lot  or  place, 
more  than  three  feet  towards  or  into  the  street  or  over  the  side- 
walk. 

§  2.  Signs  securely  fastened  may  be  suspended  over  the  side- 
walks not  exceeding  three  feet,  at  a  height  above  the  sidewalks  not 
1^3  than  eight  feet,  and  no  sign,  show  bill,  lantern  or  show  board 
which  at  its  lowest  part  is  less  than  eight  feet  in  height  above  the 
sidewalk,  ^shall  project  into  atiy  street,  under  a  penalty  of  not  less 
than  five  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offense,  and 
the  like  penalty  for  every  day  such  sign,  show  bill,  show  board  or 
other  thing  may  be  continued  or  remain  after  an  order  to  re- 
move the  sams^given  by  any  policeman  or  public  officer  to  remove 
the  same. 

§  3.  All  signs,  show  bills,  show  boards,  lanterns  or  signs  of 
any  description  whatsoever,  which  have  been  erected  or  put  up  in 
.any  manner  different  from  what  is  herein  required  and  provided  for, 
shall  be  removed  forthwith,  and  any  person  who  shall  neglect  or 
refuse  to  remove  the  same  within  twenty  days  after  the  passage  of 
this  ordinance,  or  after  notice  given  by  any  policeman  or  public 
officer,  shall  be  liable  to  a  £ne  of  not  less  than  five,  nor  more  than 
twenty  dollars  for  every  day  said  sign,  show  bill,  lantern  or  show 
board  may  remain  after  said  notice  has  been  given  to  said  person  to 
remove  the  same. 

§•4.  No  clothing,  goods,  wares,  or  merchandise,  signs,  boxes, 
poles  or  other  article  or  thing,  shall  be  placed  in  front  of  any  store, 
shop  or  other  place  in  said  town,  or  on  or  above  the  sidewalk,  so  as 
to  occupy  more  than  three  feet  next  to  the  buildings  or  premises  on 
such  sidewalk;  and  when  placed  on  the  sidewalk  such  articles  shall 
not  be  more  than  four  feet  high  above  the  top  of  the  sidewalk,  and 
when  placed  or  suspended  above  the  top  of  the  sidewalk,  shall  be 


SIGNS STREETS.  143; 

so  placed  or  hung  that  the  lowest  part  of  such  articles  shall  be  at 
least  eight  feet  above  the  top  of  the  sidewalk,  and  shall  not  swing 
more  than  three  feet  from  the  building  or  boundary  line  of  the  lot.. 
Barbers'  poles  may  be  constructed  six  feet  in  height,  but  shall  be 
placed  within  three  feet  of  the  building  or  boundary  line  of  the  lot. 

§  5.  No  person  or  persons  shall,  within  the  limits  of  The  Town 
of  JLake,  post  or  paint  an  advertisement  upon  any  private  wall,  door, 
gate  or  fence,  (without  consent  in  writing  first  obtained  of  the  owner 
of  such  wall,  door,  gate,  or  fence,)  or  upon  any  curbstone,  flagging, 
gutter  stone,  sidewalks,  lamp  posts,  gateways,  telegraph  poles,  fire 
plugs,  wooden  or  iron  railing  or  fence  of  any  public  grounds  or 
buildings,  of  the  announcements  for  sale  or  barter  of  any  description, 
of  drugs,  merchandise  or  medicine,  or  of  the  nature  or  treatment  of 
any  disease,  of  any  public  amusement  or  lottery,  or  notices  of  a  gen- 
eral public  character,  or  any  advertisement  whatever,  without  the 
previous  written  permission  of  the  supervisor.  Any  person  violating 
any  of  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be  liable  to  a  penalty  of 
five  dollars  for  each  and  every  offense. 

§  6.  Whoever  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter 
where  a  specific  fine  has  not  been  provided  for,  shall  upon  conviction 
thereof  be  fined  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for  each 
and  every  offense. 

§  7.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  police  to  see  to  the  enforcement 
of  each  and  all  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  and  each  and  every 
policeman  shall,  whenever  there  is  any  obstruction  in  any  street  or 
alley  or  sidewalk,  endeavor  to  remove  the  same,  and  in  case  such 
obstruction  shall  be  of  such  a  character  that  the  same  cannot  readily 
be  removed,  then  said  policeman  shall  report  the  same  to  the  superr 
visor,  and  the  said  supervisor  shall  be  authorized  to  remove  the  same. 


CHAPTER     XXII. 


STREETS. 


SECTION  i.  The  streets  and  alleys  in  The  Town  of  Lake 
shall  be  kept  free  and  clear  of  all  obstructions,  incumbrances  and 
encroachments  for  the  use  of  the  public,  and  shall  not  be  used  or 
occupied  in  any  other  way  than  is  herein  provided  in  this  chapter. 


ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

&  2.  No  person  shall  injure  or  tear  up  any  pavement,  side  or 
crosswalk,  or  any  part  thereof,  dig  any  hole,  ditch  or  drain  in,  or  dig 
or  remove  any  sod,  stone,  earth,  sand  or  gravel  from  any  street,  alley 
or  public  ground  in  Tne  Town  of  Lake,  without  having  first  obtained 
written  permission  from  the  supervisor,  or  hinder  or  obstruct  the 
mikin^  or  repairing  any  public  improvement  or  work  ordered  by 
the  board  of  trustees,  o:  being  done  under  lawful  authority  for  The 
Town  of  L  ike,  under  the  penalty  for  each  offense  of  not  less  than  ten 
dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

&  3.  Any  person,  company  or  corporation,  who  shall  incumber 
or  obstruct,  or  cause  to  be  incumbered  or  obstructed  any  street, 
alley,  or  other  public  place  in  said  town,  by  placing  therein  or 
thereon  any  building  materials,  or  any  article  or  thing  whatsoever, 
without  having  first  obtained  written  permission  from  the  super- 
visor, shall  be  subject  to  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor 
more  than  fifty  dollars  for  each  offense,  and  a  further  penalty  of  ten 
dollars  for  each  day  or  part  of  a  day  such  incumbrance  or  obstruc- 
tion shall  continue. 

&  A.  The  police  are  hereby  authorized  to  order  any  article  or 
thing  whatsoever  which  may  incumber  or  obstruct  any  street,  or  alley, 
within  said  town  to  be  removed;  if  such  article  or  thing  shall  not 
be  removed  within  six  hours  after  notice  to  the  owner  or  person  in 
charge  thereof  to  remove  the  same,  or  if  the  owner  cannot  be 
readily  found  for  the  purpose  of  such  notice,  he  shall  cause  the  same 
to  be  removed  to  some  suitable  place,  to  be  designated  by  the  super- 
visor. And  the  owner  of  any  article  so  removedr  shall  forfeit  a  pen- 
alty of  ten  dollars,  in  addition  to  the  costs  of  such  removal. 

5  5.     Any  article  or  thing  which  may  be  removed,  in  accordance 
with  the  preceding  section,  if  of  sufficient  value  to  more  than  pay 
the  expense  thereof,  shall  be  advertised  ten  days   and  sold  by  the 
supervisor,  unless  the   same   shall  be    sooner    reclaimed,   and   the 
penalty  and  cost  paid  by  the  owners  thereof.    The  proceeds  of  such 
sale  shall  be  paid  into  the  town  treasury  and  the  balance,  if  any,  after 
deducting  the  penalty  and  costs,  shall  be  paid  to  any  person  or  per- 
sons furnishing  satisfactory  proof  of  ownership. 

6  6.     No  wagon,  sleigh,  sled,  carriage,  railway  carriage  or  vehi- 
cle of  any  kind  or  description,  or  any  part  of  the  same,  without  horses 
or  other  beasts  of  burden,  shall  be  permitted  to  remain  or  stand  in 
any  street  of  this  town  for  more  than  one  hour,  except  for  the  pur- 
pose of  being  repaired,  and  then  only  in  front  of  the  premises  of  the 
person   so   repairing,   and  within  ten  feet  of  the   curbing,  under  a 
penalty  of  not  less  than  one  dollar,  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dol- 


STREETS.  145    ' 

lars;  and  any  such  wagon,  sled,  sleigh,  carriage,  railway  car,  or 
vehicle,  or  any  part  of  the  same,  may  be  removed  by  any  police 
officer,  as  provided  in  section  4  of  this  chapter. 

§  7.  No  person  shall  erect  or  place  any  building,  in  whole  or 
in  part,  upon  any  street,  alley,  sidewalk,  or  other  public  ground 
within  this  town  under  a  penalty  of  fifty  dollars. 

§  8.  The  owner  of  any  building,  fence,  porch,  steps,  gallery  or 
other  obstruction,  now  standing,  or  which  may  hereafter  be  erected 
or  placed  upon  any  street,  alley  or  sidewalk,  or  public  ground 
within  this  town,  or  which  may  be  left  standing  upon  any  new  street 
that  has  been  or  may  hereafter  be  opened,  shall  remove  the  same 
within  such  reasonable  time,  not  exceeding  thirty  nor  less  than  three 
days,  as  he  shall  be  required  so  to  do  by  a  notice  signed  by  the 
supervisor,  under  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars  nor 
more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  and  a  further  penalty  of  ten  dollars 
for  every  day  the  same  shall  so  remain. 

§  9.  Whenever  the  owner  of  any  building,  fence  or  other  ob- 
struction, upon  any  street,  alley,  sidewalk  or  public  ground  in  this 
town  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  remove  the  same,  after  notice  as  pre- 
scribed in  the  preceding  section,  or  if  the  owner  cannot  be  readily 
found  for  the  purpose  of  such  notice,  the  same  shall  be  deemed  a 
nuisance,  and  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  supervisor,  and  is  hereby 
made  his  duty  to  cause  the  same  to  be  removed  or  taken  down,  in 
his  discretion,  and  the  expense  thereof  shall  be  recoverable  of  the 
owner  in  an  action  of  assumpsit,  and  every  person  who  shall  oppose 
or  resist  the  execution  of  the  orders  of  said  supervisor  in  the  premises 
shall  forfeit  a  penalty  of  one  hundred  dollars. 


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§  10.  No  company,  corporation  or  person  shall  be  allowed  to 
deposit  or  place  in  the  street  any  lumber  or  other  material,  nor  shall 
they  load  or  unload  any  car  from  the  street,  nor  erect  or  maintain 
any  switch  house  or  other  building  upon  any  street,  highway  or 
alley  within  the  town  limits,  except  by  permission  of  the  supervisor; 
any  violation  of  this  section  shall  subject  such  company,  corpora- 
tion or  person  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  ten  dol- 
lars for  each  and  every  offense. 

§  u.  Any  person  or  persons  who  shall  be  engaged  in  drawing 
stone,  ice,  mortar,  rubbish  or  manure  through  the  streets,  shall 
when  conveying  or  carrying  earth,  manure,  mortar,  shavings  and 
rubbish,  convey  and  carry  the  same  in  tight  boxes,  and  when  car- 
rying or  conveying  any  of  the  aforesaid  articles,  in  case  the  same 
fall  into  the  street  or  the  same  be  scattered  in  any  street  or  avenue, 


146  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

cause  the  same  to  be  forthwith  removed;  and  for  any  violation  of 
any  provisions  of  this  section,  he  or  they  shall  forfeit  and  pay  the 
sum  of  five  dollars  for  each  and  every  offense. 

§  12.  Any  person  or  persons  neglecting  or  refusing  to  remove 
the  dirt,  sand  or  rubbish  mentioned  in  section  IT  of  this  chapter 
within  the  time  specified  therein,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  the  sum  of 
five  dollars  for  each  offense;  and  in  addition  thereto  the  supervisor 
shall  cause  the  same  to  be  remDved  at  the  expense  of  the  party 
so  neglecting  or  refusing  who  shall  be  liable  to  repay  and  refund 
the  same,  and  which  sum  shall  be  collected  and  paid  into  the  town 
treasury. 

§  13.  Any  contractors  or  other  person  or  persons  causing  any 
cart,  wagon  or  other  vehicles  to  be  loaded  and  heaped  up  with 
manure,  sand,  earth,  mud,  clay  or  rubbish  so  that  the  contents  or  any 
part  thereof  shall  be  scattered  in  any  street,  avenue  or  other  public 
place  in  this  town,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  the  sum  of  five  dollars  for 
each  offense. 

§  14.  Any  person  having  the  use  of  any  portion  of  the  street 
or  sidewalk  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  or  repairing  any  building, 
or  for  any  other  purpose,  shall  cause  two  red  lights  to  be  placed  in 
a  conspicuous  place  in  front  of  such  obstruction  and  at  either  end  of 
the  same  from  dusk  until  sunrise  in  the  morning  each  night  during 
the  time  such  obstruction  remains. 

§  15.  The  owner  of  any  building,  or  the  contractor  for  its 
removal,  either  or  both,  who  shall  suffer  the  same  to  be  or  remain  in 
any  of  the  streets  or  alleys,  or  upon  any  of  the  public  grounds  of 
the  town  for  any  time  longer  than  may  be  specified  in  the  permis- 
sion of  the  supervisor,  shall  forfeit  a  penalty  of  ten  dollars,  and  a 
like  penalty  for  every  twenty-four  hours  the  same  shall  be  continued, 
and  such  building  shall  be  deemed  a  nuisance. 

§  1 6.  The  names  of  all  streets  shall  be  placed  on  all  street 
corners,  and  shall,  wherever  there  are  street  lamps  at  the  corners 
of  the  streets,  be  painted  on  said  street  lamps,  or  on  tin,  glass  or 
metallic  strips  or  plates,  and  firmly  attached  to  said  lamps  or  lamp 
posts. 

§  17.  No  person  shall  rrake  a  stand  or  stopping  place,  within 
any  street  or  alley  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  for  the  purpose  of  exhibit- 
ing for  sale,  or  for  the  purpose  of  selling  or  offering  for  sale,  any 
horses,  mules  or  cattle,  or  any  wagon,  ca/riage  or  other  vehicle 
drawn  by  either  of  the  animals  af  jresaid,  under  the  penalty  of  not 
less  than  five  or  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  offense. 


STREETS.  147 

§  1 8.  No  town  officer  shall  grant  permission  to  any  person, 
company  or  corporation  to  lay  any  pipes,  for  any  purpose  whatever, 
in  the  streets  or  alleys  or  public  grounds  of  The  Town  of  Lake, 
except  for  private  connections  with  mains  already  laid,  unless  the 
application  for  such  permission  shall  have  been  approved  or  recom- 
mended by  the  board  of  trustees. 

^  19.  No  street  or  alley  in  The  Town  of  Lake  shall  be  paved 
until  after  all  sewers  and  water  pipes  shall  be  laid  and  constructed 
therein,  unless  otherwise  specially  authorized  by  the  board  of 
trustees. 

§  20.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  or  persons  engaged 
in  digging  down  any  street,  in  paving  any  street,  building  any  sewer 
or  drain,  or  trench  for  water  pipes,  in  any  of  the  public  streets  or 
avenues,  under  contract  with  the  corporation  of  this  town,  made 
through  either  or  any  of  the  departments  of  the  said  corporation, 
or  by  virtue  of  any  permission  which  may  have  been  granted  to 
them  by  the  board  of  trustees,  or  any  department,  or  either  of  them, 
where  such  work,  if  left  exposed,  would  be  dangerous  to  passengers, 
to  erect  a  fence  or  railing  at  such  excavations  or  work  in  such  a 
manner  as  to  prevent  danger  to  passengers  who  may  be  traveling 
such  streets,  roads  or  avenues,  and  to  continue  and  uphold  the  said 
railing  or  fence  until  the  work  shall  be  completed,  or  the  obstruction 
or  danger  removed.  And  it  also  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  persons 
to  place  upon  such  railing  or  fence  at  twilight  in  the  evening,  suita- 
ble and  sufficient  lights,  and  keep  them  burning  through  the  night 
during  the  performance  of  said  work,  under  the  penalty  of  one 
hundred  dollars  for  every  neglect. 

§  21.  The  provisions  of  the  preceding  section  shall  apply  to 
every  person  who  shall  place  building  materials  in  any  of  the  public 
streets  or  avenues,  or  be  engaged  in  building  any  vault,  or  con- 
structing any  lateral  drain  from  any  cellar  to  any  public  sewer,  or 
who  shall  do  or  perform  any  work  causing  obstructions  in  the  pub- 
lic streets,  by  virtue  of  any  permit  from  any  executive  department; 
and  also  to  all  public  or  corporation  officers  engaged  in  performing 
any  work  in  behalf  of  the  corporation,  whereby  obstructions  or 
excavations  shall  be  made  in  the  public  streets. 

§  22.  The  extent  to  which  such  railing  or  fence  shall  be  built 
in  the  several  cases  is  hereby  defined  as  follows,  to  wit: 

(i)     In  digging  down  any  street  or   road,  by  placing  the  same 
along  the  upper  bank  of  such  excavation,  or  by  extending  the  fence 
so  far  across  the  street  or  road  as  to  prevent  persons  from  traveling 
on  such  portion  as  would  be  dangerous. 
11 


148  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

(2)  In  paving  any  street  or  avenue,  by  extending  it  across  the 
carriage-way  of  such  street  or  avenue,  or  if  but  a  portion  of  the 
width  of  such  carriage-way  be  obstructed  across  such  portion;  in 
which  case  the  obstruction  shall  be  so  arranged  as  to  leave  a  pas- 
sage-way through  as  nearly  as  may  be  of  uniform  width. 

(3)  In  the  building  of  a  sewer,  by  placing  it  across  the  carriage- 
way at  the  ends  of  such  excavations  as  shall  be  made. 

(4)  In  building  vaults,  by  enclosing  the  ground  taken  for  the 
vaults. 

(5)  In  placing  building  materials  in   the  streets,  by  placing  it 
across  so  much  of  the  street  as  shall  be  occupied  by  such  materials; 
and  the  materials  shall  be  so  placed  as  to  occupy  a  space  of  uniform 
width,  except  brick  or  stone  piled  solid  at  least  seven  feet  high.     In 
all  cases  sufficient  lights  are  to  be  placed  upon  such  building  mate- 
rials, fences  or  railings,  and  kept  burning  during  the  night  as  pro- 
vided by  the  preceding  sections. 

§23.  In  all  cases  where  any  person  or  persons  shall  perform  any 
of  the  work  mentioned  in  the  preceding  sections,  either  under  con- 
tracts with  the  corporation  or  by  virtue  of  permission  obtained  from 
the  supervisor  or  board  of  trustees,  or  either  of  the  departments,  such 
persons  shall  be  answerable  for  any  and  every  damage  which  may 
be  occasioned  to  persons,  animals  or  property,  by  reason  of  careless- 
ness in  any  manner  connected  with  the  said  work. 

§  24.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  officers  of  the  department  hav- 
ing charge  of  the  particular  class  of  improvements  to  see  that  the 
requirements  contained  in  this  chapter,  in  regard  to  the  erection  of 
fencing  and  placing  lights,  in  all  cases  be  complied  with  severally. 

§  25.  A  like  fence  or  railing  and  lights  shall  be  put  up  and  main- 
tained in  all  cases  in  which  a  street  or  other  public  place  is  dug  out 
at  the  cost  of  the  corporation. 


CHAPTER     XXIII. 


TREES. 


SECTION  i.  If  any  trees  shall  be  suffered  by  the  owner  or  occu- 
pant of  the  premises  to  grow  in  such  a  manner  as  to  obstruct  the 
reflection  of  the  public  lamps,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  supervisor 
to  notify  the  owner  or  occupant  of  the  premises  forthwith  to  trim  the 
same  in  the  manner  to  be  specified  in  the  notice. 


TREES WATER.  149 

§  2.  If  any  person  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  comply  with  such 
notice,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  supervisor  to  cause  such  trees 
to  be  trimmed,  and  the  person  so  refusing  or  neglecting  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  a  penalty  of  one  dollar  for  each  tree  he  was  so  notified,  and 
refused  or  neglected,  to  trim. 

§  3.  No  person,  other  than  the  owner  of  the  abutting  property, 
shall  cut  down,  destroy,  break  or  in  any  way  injure  any  tree  or  shrub 
standing  in  any  street  or  public  place,  except  by  permission  of  the 
board  of  trustees  or  the  supervisor,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than 
five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  4.  All  trees  kept,  maintained  or  cultivated  in  any  of  the  streets 
or  public  places  of  the  town  shall  have  the  boughs  or  branches  cut  or 
trimmed  close  to  the  trunk  of  the  tree,  at  least  ten  feet  above  the 
ground;  and  it  shall  not  be  lawful  to  keep,  maintain  or  cultivate 
trees  in  any  of  the  streets  or  other  public  places  in  the  town  except- 
ing in  the  manner  provided  in  this  section,  under  the  penalty  of  one 
dollar  for  each  offense. 


CHAPTER     XXIV. 


WATER. 


SECTION  i.  Every  consumer  of  the  water  of  The  Town  of  .Lake 
water  works  shall  be  governed  by,  and  be  subject  to  the  following 
rules  and  regulations,  and  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  super- 
visor, as  superintendent  of  the  water  department,  to  enforce  the 
same: 

(1)  No  occupant  or  owner  of   any  building,  in  which   water  is 
introduced  shall  be    allowed,  without    permission,  to  supply  other 
persons  or  families.       For  any  violation  of  this  provision  the  supply 
shall  be  stopped  and  the  amount  paid  forfeited. 

(2)  Whenever  two  or  more  parties  shall  be  supplied  from  one 
service  pipe  connecting  with  the  distributing  main,  the  failure  on  the 
part  of  any  one  of  said  parties  to  comply  with  any  provision  of  this 


I5O  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

chapter  shall  authorize  the  water  superintendent  to  withhold  the  sup- 
ply of  water  from  such  service  pipe  without  any  liability  whatsoever,, 
and  all  payments  made  shall  be  forfeited. 

(3)  No  addition  or  alteration  whatever  in  or  about  an}'  conduit, 
pipe  or  water-cock,  shall  be  made  or  caused  to  be  made  by  any  per- 
son taking  the  water,  without  notice  thereof  first  given  to  and    per- 
mission had  in  writing  from  said  water  superintendent. 

(4)  All  persons  taking  water  shall  keep  their  own  service  pipes, 
stop  cocks  and  apparatus  in  good  repair  and  protected  from  frost  at 
their   own    expense,  and    shall    prevent  all  unnecessary    waste    of 
water;  and  no  claim  shall  be  made  against  the  town  by  reason  of 
the  breakage  of  any  service  cock  or  service  pipe. 

(5)  No  hydrants  shall  be  permitted  on  the  sidewalk  or  in  the  front 
area,  neither  shall  they  be  permitted  to  keep  running  when  not  in 
actual  use.    Taps  at  wash  basins,  water-closets,  baths  and  urinals  shall 
be  kept  closed  in  like  manner. 

(6)  Applications  for  water  must  state  fully  all  purposes  for  which 
it  is  required;  and  upon  the  payment  of  the  semi-annual  charges, 
parties  must  answer  truthfully  all  questions  put  to  them  relating  to 
its  consumption.     In  case  of  fraudulent  representation  by  the  appli- 
cant, or  the  use  of  water  for  purposes  not  embraced  in  the  applicant's 
application,  or  of  willful  or  unreasonable  waste  of  water,  the  said 
superintendent  shall  have  the  right  to  stop  the  supply  of  water,  unless 
the  offender  shall  promptly  pay  such  additional  charge  as  said  super- 
intendent ma}-  impose. 

(7)  The  officers  of  the  water  department,  and  every  person  dele- 
gated for  such  purpose,  shall  have  free  access  at  proper  hours  of  the 
day  to  ail  parts  of  every  building  in  which  the  water  is  consumed,  to- 
examine  the  pipes  and  fixtures  and  to  ascertain  whether  there  is  any 
unnecessary  waste  of  water. 

(8)  The  water   rates  or  taxes  as  hereinafter  established,   shall 
be  paid  semi-annually  in  advance,  on  the  first  days  of  May  and  No- 
vember, at  the  office  of  the  town  treasurer.     Ten  per  cent,  penalty 
will  be  added  if  not  paid  in  ten  days  after  the  same  becomes  paya- 
ble.    Every  person  who  shall  fail  to  pay  his  water  rate  or  tax  within 
two  months  from  the  first  days  of   May  and   November  in  each 
year,  shall  have  the  use  of  the  water  stopped  until  full  payment 
thereof  and  all  arrearages  and  charges  for  shutting  off  and  turning^ 
on  the  water  be  made. 


WATER. 


§  2.  The  annual  water  rates  or  taxes  which  shall  be  paid  by 
«very  person  using  the  water  of  The  Town  of  Lake  water  works 
shall  be  as  follows: 

(i)  Scale  of  annual  water  rents  for  all  private  dwelling  houses 
occupied  by  one  family  only,  not  exceeding  ten  persons. 


FRONT  WIDTH. 

1  Story. 

2  Stories. 

3  Stories. 

4  Stories. 

5  Stories. 

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(2)  All  basements  and  attics  in  private  dwelling  houses  having 
two  or  more  furnished  or  occupied  rooms,  shall  be  deemed  and  esti- 
mated as  one  story. 

(3)  For  each  person,  exceeding  twelve,  in   a  family  occupying  a 
dwelling  house,  fifty  cents  extra  per  year  shall  be  charged.     Dwell- 
ing houses  occupied  by  more  than  one  family  shall  be  charged  the 
following  extra  rates:     The  second   family,  one-half  of  the   regular 
rates;  the  third,  and  each  additional  family,  one-fourth  of  the  regu- 
jar  rates. 


(4) 


TARIFF    OF    WATER    RATES  FOR  MISCELLANEOUS    PURPOSES. 


Banks,  same  rates  as  dwelling  houses. 

Bakeries,  same  as  dwellings,  and  $1.00  additional  for  the 
average  daily  use  of  each  barrel  of  flour.  When  the  build- 
ing is  occupied  by  a  family,  twenty-rive  per  cent,  will  be 
deducted  from  the  above  dwelling  house  rate. 

Barber  shops,  one    chair pe'r  annum  $3  oo 

Barber  shops,  each  additional  chair " 

Bathing  tubs " 

Bathing  tubs,  second  tub " 

Bathing  tubs,  over  two,  each " 

Blacksmith  shop,  one  fire " 

Blacksmith  shop,  each  additional    fire " 

Building  purposes,  per  1,000  brick 

Building  purposes,  per  perch  stone 


oo 
oo 
oo 
oo 
oo 
oo 
10 
05 


152  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

Building  purposes,  plastering,  100  square  yards $     30 

Fountains  to  be  used  not  exceeding  six  hours  per  day,  during 
the  season,  according  to  size  of  orifice: 

One-eighth  inch per  season     3  oo 

Three-sixteenths  inch .          "  6  oo 

One-fourth  inch "  10  oo 

Five-sixteenths  inch "  20  oo 

Hotels,  for  each  room  up  to  fifty per  annum     i  oo- 

Hotels,  for  each  additional  room "  50 

Boarding  houses,  dwelling  house  rates,  with  $1.00  extra  for 
each  room  into  which  water  is  introduced. 

Locomotives,  per  1,000  gallons i$ 

Breweries,  malt  houses,  distilleries,  foundries,  machine  shops, 
gas  works,  soap  factories,  tanneries  and  manufacturing  es- 
tablishments, generally,  per  1,000  gallons 15 

Offices  and  sleeping  rooms per  annum     2  oo 

Printing  offices,  dwelling  house  rates  (engines  extra). 

Saloons per  annum  10  oo 

Saloons,  when  connected  with  a  dwelling  or  boarding  house, 
in  addition  to  amount  charged  for  dwelling  or  boarding 

house per  annum     8  oo 

Eating  houses "  10  oo- 

Private  stables,  for  one  animal "  2  oo 

Private  stables,  for  each  additional  animal "  i  oo 

Public  stables,  for  each  stall,  including  washing  carriages,  per 

annum i   50* 

Steam  engines,  per  horse  power  up  to  10 per  annum     3  oo 

Steam  engines,  per  additional  horse  power  from    10  to  30, 

per  annum i   50 

Steam  engines,  per  additional  horse  power  over  30,  per  annum         50 
Boilers,  used  exclusively  for  heating,  per  horse   power,  per 

annum 50 

Stores,  20  ft.  front  or  less per  annum     5  oo 

Stores,  from  20  to  30  ft.  front "  6  oo 

Sprinkling,  25  feet  front  or  less "  2  oo 

Sprinkling,  for  each  additional  foot "  05 

Water  closets,  in  public  houses,  per  bowl per  month     3  oo 

Water  closets,  in  private  houses,  per  bowl "  2  oo 

Watering  down  trenches:     Trenches  two  feet  wide  or  less, 

per  lineal  foot,  one-half  cent. 

Trenches,  from  two  to  three  feet  wide,  per  lineal  foot,  three- 
fourths  cent. 
Trenches,  four  feet  wide,  per  lineal  foot,  one  cent. 

Wider  trenches  in  proportion  to  above  rates. 
Urinals,  in  hotels,  boarding  houses  and  saloons,  each  per  annum    2  oo» 


WATER.  153 

(5)  For  every  store  or  place  of  business  occupied  by  one  party, 
when  not  over  twenty-five  feet  front,  five  dollars;    for  each  addi- 
tional ten  feet  thereof,  two  dollars;  when  occupied  by  more  than 
one  party,  dwelling  house  rates,  as  hereinbefore  provided. 

(6)  For  every  street  sprinkler,  for  each  tub  per  month,  twenty- 
five  dollars. 

(7)  All  wagons  or  carts  used  for  the  purpose  of  street  sprinkling 
within  the  town,  shall  be  Charged  for  license,  each,  the  sum   of  five 
dollars  per  annum,  which  sum  shall  be  in  addition  to  the  sum  charged 
for  permit  to  use  water  from   the  town  hydrants  for  said  vehicle: 
Provided,  however,  that  before  issuing  such  license,  the  water  super- 
intendent shall  prescribe  the  kind  of  vehicle  to  be  used,  specifying 
particularly  the   capacity  of  the  tank,  the  number  and   size  of  the 
holes    in    the    sprinkler,  and  the    distance   of   the    same  from    the 
ground;  and  also  such  general  regulations  as   he   may  deem  neces- 
sary concerning  the  use  of  said  vehicles   on  the  public  streets,  and 
the  use  by  them  of  the  town   hydrants ;  for  the  due  observance  of 
which  he  may  require  from  the  person  taking  such  license  a  good 
and  sufficient  bond. 

(8)  All  manufacturing  and  other  establishments  requiring  a  large 
supply  of  water  shall  be  required  to  use   a  meter.     All  premises 
supplied  through  meters,  or  their  equivalents  shall  be  assessed  on  the 
basis  of  consumption  for  every  thousand  gallons  used   per  meter  or 
registered  measurement,  as  follows:     Where  the  average  daily  con- 
sumption or  use  of  water  is 

75,000  gallons  or  over,  seven  cents. 

50,000  gallons  and  less  than  75,000,    8  cents. 

45,000  gallons  and  less  than  50,000,    9  cents. 

40,000  gallons  and  less  than  45,000,  10  cents. 

35,000  gallons  and  less  than  40,000,  n  cents. 

30,000  gallons  and  less  than  35,000,  r2  cents. 

25,000  gallons  and  less  than  30,000,  13  cents. 

20,000  gallons  and  less  than  25,000,  14  cents. 

'  15,000  gallons  and  less  than  20,000,  15  cents. 

§  3.  The  supervisor  is  hereby  authorized  to  remit  and  rebate 
the  water  tax  or  rates  assessed  against  property  used  and  occupied 
wholly  for  charitable  purposes ;  and  he  may  require  every  application 
for  a  rebate  or  remission  of  said  water  tax  or  rates  to  be  verified  by 
the  affidavit  of  one  or  more  taxpayers. 

§  4.  All  the  hydrants  constructed  in  The  Town  of  Lake  for  the 
purpose  of  extinguishing  fires  in  said  town  are  hereby  declared 


154  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

to  be  public  hydrants,  and  no  person  or  persons  (other  than  the 
members  of  the  fire  department  of  said  town,  for  the  uses  and  pur- 
poses of  said  department,  and  those  specially  authorized  by  the 
water  superintendent),  shall  open  any  of  the  said  hydrants,  or 
attempt  to  draw  water  from  the  same,  or  in  any  manner  interfere 
with  or  injure  any  of  said  hydrants,  under  a  penalty  of  not  less  than 
ten  dollars  nor  exceeding  fifty  dollars  for  each  and  every  offense. 

§  5.  The  fire  hydrants  herein  provided  for  shall,  under  the 
direction  of  the  supervisor,  be  erected  in  such  portions  of  the  town 
as  he  shall  deem  most  exposed  to,  and  least  protected  against,  fire. 

^  6.  Any  person  or  persons  who  shall  willfully  or  carelessly 
break  or  injure  any  of  the,  public  hydrants,  or  shall  pollute  or  unnec- 
essarily waste  the  water  at  any  such  hydrants,  shall,  on  conviction, 
be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  exceeding  fifty  dol- 
lars for  each  and  every  offense. 

4}  7.  Any  member  of  the  fire  department  who  shall  let  out,  or 
suffer  or  permit  any  person  or  persons  to  take  the  wrenches  fur- 
nished to  the  fire  department  of  said  town  to  be  used  in  case  of  fire, 
or  shall  suffer  or  permit  any  of  said  wrenches  furnished  said  depart- 
ment to  be  taken  from  the  engine  houses  of  said  department,  except 
as  they  accompany  the  engines  on  occasions  of  fire,  or  for  other 
purposes  connected  with  the  fire  department,  shall  forfeit  and  pay, 
on  conviction,  a  sum  not  less .  than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty 
dollars  for  each  and  every  offense. 

§  8.  No  person  shall  use  any  water  supplied  through  The  Town 
of  Lake  water  works  for  the  purpose  of  hose  sprinkling,  between 
the  hours  of  8  A.  M.  and  6  p.  M.  in  the  day. 

§  9.  No  person  shall  allow  the  water  to  run-  to  waste  through 
hydrants  or  defective  pipes:  Provided^  however,  that  a  reasonable 
time,  not  to  exceed  twenty-four  hours,  shall  be  allowed  to  parties 
having  defective  pipes,  to  repair,  or  cause  the  same  to  be  repaired. 

§  10.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons  in  any 
manner  to  interfere  with  any  main  or  service  water  pipes  of  the 
town,  without  permission  therefor  obtained  from  the  water  super- 
intendent, under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  for  each 
offense. 

§  ii.  Any  person  who  shall  turn  on  the  supply  of  water  to 
any  premises  from  which  the  supply  has  been,  on  account  of  non- 
payment of  water  rent,  or  for  any  other  cause,  turned  off  by  the 


WATER.  155 

town,  without  having  first  obtained  a  permit  so  to  do  from  the  water 
superintendent,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars, 
nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  and  liable  to  be  excluded  from 
using  the  water  for  twelve  months  thereafter. 

§  12.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  construct,  have  or 
permit  to  remain  in  any  building  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  any  tank 
for  water,  of  a  larger  capacity  than  ten  barrels,  unless  the  said 
tank  shall  rest  upon  a  foundation  of  solid  brick  or  stone  masonry,  or 
upon  iron  girders  which  rest  upon  solid  brick  or  stone  masonry,  un- 
less said  tank  shall  remain  uncovered,  when  located  above  the  main 
floor  of  the  building,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  twenty-five 
dollars,  and  a  like  penalty  for  every  day  he  shall  refuse  or  neglect 
to  comply  with  the  requirements  of  this  section. 

fi3.     Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  or  either  of  the  rules 
regulations  specified  in  this  chapter,  shall,  on  conviction,  in  addi- 
tion to  the  enforcement  of  the  forfeiture,  liabilities,  stipulations  and 
reservations  therein  contained,  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than  three  dol- 
lars nor  more  than  twenty  dollars. 

§  14.  No  person  shall  in  any  manner  obstruct  the  access  to 
any  stop-cock,  connected  with  any  water  pipe  within  any  street, 
alley  or  common  of  said  town,  by  means  of  any  lumber,  brick,  build- 
ing material  or  other  article,  thing  or  hinderance  whatsoever,  under 
a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars. 

§  15.  Any  person  who  shall  lay  any  water  service  pipes,  or 
introduce  into  or  about  any  building  or  on  any  grounds,  any  water 
pipes,  or  do  any  plumbing  work  in  any  building  or  on  any  grounds, 
for  the  purpose  of  connecting  such  pipes  or  plumbing  work  with 
the  pipes  of  The  Town  of  Lake  water  works,  or  of  preparing  them 
for  such  connections,  with  the  view  of  having  such  premises  sup- 
plied with  water  by  The  Town  of  Lake  water  works,  or  who  shall 
make  any  additions  to  or  alterations  of  any  water  pipe,  bath,  water- 
closet,  stop-cock  or  other  fixture  or  apparatus  for  the  supplying  of 
any  premises  with  water,  without  being  duly  licensed  to  perform 
such  work  by  the  board  of  trustees  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  and 
without  having  first  obtained  a  permit  for  doing  such  work  from  the 
water  superintendent,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten 
dollars  and  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars. 

§  16.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  police  of  The  Town  of  Lake, 
and  of  all  persons  in  the  employ  of  the  town  having  police  power, 
to  enforce  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  and  arrest  all  persons  vio- 
lating the  same. 


156  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 


MISCELLANEOUS    ORDINANCES, 


CHAPTER    XXV. 


AMUSEMENTS. 

SECTION  i.  No  person  or  persons,  within  the  limits  of  The  Town 
of  Lake,  shall  give  any  entertainment  mentioned  in  this  chapter,  for 
gain,  without  a  license  for  that  purpose  first  had  and  obtained  from  the 
town,  under  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  and  not  exceeding 
one  hundred  dollars,  for  each  and  every  violation  of  this  section: 
Provided,  that  for  musical  parties  or  concerts,  and  exhibitions  of 
paintings  or  statuary,  given  by  citizens  of  this  town  not  engaged  in 
the  giving  of  such  entertainments  as  a  business,  no  license  shall  be 
required. 

§  2.  Each  license  shall  express  for  what  it  is  granted,  and  the 
time  it  is  to  continue,  and  the  following  tax,  or  license  fee,  shall  be 
imposed  upon  each  license,  granted  as  aforesaid,  and  paid  to  the 
town  clerk,  on  the  granting  of  such  license,  as  follows,  to  wit:  For 
each  circus  or  circus  and  menagerie,  ten  dollars  for  each  day;  for 
each  side-show  with  any  circus  or  menagerie,  ten  dollars  for  each 
and  every  day  of  exhibition;  for  each  concert,  musical  or  minstrel 
or  theatrical  entertainment,  five  dollars  for  each  day. 

§  3.  Every  license  shall  be  issued  by  the  town  clerk,  on  the  pay- 
ment to  him  of  the  license  fee  provided  for  in  section  two  of  this 
chapter. 

§  4.  The  owner  or  lessee  of  any  hall  or  theatre,  in  which  the 
entertainments  given  are,  as  a  rule,  of  a  dramatic  or  operatic  charac- 
ter, shall,  on  the  payment  of  one  hundred  dollars  to  the  town  treas- 
urer, have  the  occupants  of  his  or  their  hall  or  theatre  exempted 
from  license  for  one  vear. 


AMUSEMENTS.  1 5  7 

§  5.  The  word  "entertainments"  used  herein,  shall  be  taken 
to  mean  and  include,  theatricals  and  other  exhibitions,  shows  and 
amusements,  wherein  or  whereby,  any  person  or  persons  shall  act,, 
play,  or  perform  any  play,  opera,  or  other  dramatic  or  musical  com- 
position, or  give  performances  of  any  kind,  or  give  any  show  or 
public  exhibition  for  gain. 

§  6.  Every  license  granted  under  the  provisions  hereof  shall,  at 
all  times  be  subject  to  the  ordinances  of  the  town  existing  when  the 
same  shall  be  issued,  or  which  shall  thereafter  be  passed,  so  far  as- 
the  same  shall  apply. 

§  7.  All  licenses  for  entertainments,  where  a  license  is  required,, 
shall  contain  a  proviso  that  no  gaming,  raffle,  lottery  or  chance  gift 
distribution  of  money  or  articles  of  value  shall  be  connected  there- 
with or  allowed  by  the  person  obtaining  said  license,  or  in  anywise 
permitted  or  held  out  as  an  inducement  to  visitors;  and  when  any 
person  or  persons  shall  be  charged  by  a  credible  person  with  having 
violated  the  provisions  of  his  or  her  license,  as  aforesaid,  the  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  trustees  is  directed  to  give  the  parties  accused 
reasonable  notice  thereof,  and  inquire  into  the  truth  of  said  charge;, 
and  if  the  accusation  be  sustained  to  his  satisfaction,  he  may  revoke 
the  license  of  any  such  person  or  persons,  and  every  such  person  or 
persons  so  offending  shall  be  subject  to  a  penalty  of  one  hundred 
dollars. 

§  8.  No  person  or  persons  shall  be  allowed  to  give  any  con- 
cert or  entertainment,  in  any  licensed  saloon  or  grocery,  or  in 
any  place  the  entrance  of  which  shall  be  through  a  saloon  or  grocery, 
within  The  Town  of  Lake,  without  a  special  permit  from  the  presi- 
dent; and  any  person  or  persons  violating  the  provisions  of  this 
section  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  exceed- 
ing fifty  dollars,  and  shall  have  his  or  her  license  revoked,  in  the 
discretion  of  the  president. 

§  9.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  proprietor  or  lessee  of  any 
theatre,  hall,  or  other  building  where  public  entertainments  are 
given,  before  he  permits  any  person  or  persons  to  use  the  same  for 
the  purpose  of  giving  any  entertainment  therein  for  gain,  to  obtain 
from  the  town  clerk  the  license  herein  required,  either  in  his  own 
name  or  in  the  name  of  the  person  proposing  to  give  such  enter- 
tainment, under  a  penalty  of  ten  dollars  for  each  and  every  violation 
of  this  section. 

§  10.     It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  or  persons  to  destroy, 
tear,  mutilate,  cover  over,  or  otherwise  deface  or  injure,  any  bill  or 


158  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

poster  (posted  in  such  places  as  may  be  permitted),  descriptive  of 
any  performance  or  entertainment  given  in  any  licensed  theatre  or 
hall,  oV  in  pursuance  of  a  license  given  by  the  town;  and  any  person 
•or  persons  violating  the  provisions  of  this  section,  shall  be  subject 
to  a  penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each  and  every  violation  thereof. 

§n.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  or  persons  to  sell  or 
give  away  any  spirituous,  vinous,  malt,  or  other  intoxicating  liquors, 
in  any  theatre,  hall,  or  other  building  in  which  public  entertainments 
.are  given  for  gain,  nor  in  any  room  or  rooms  connected  with  the 
same,  without  a  special  permit  from  the  board  of  trustees,  under  a 
penalty  of  fifty  dollars  for  each  and  every  violation  of  this  section. 

§  12.  No  chairs,  stools,  or  seats  of  any  description  shall  be  placed 
or  permitted  to  remain  in,  or  across  the  lobby,  aisles  or  passage- 
ways, in  any  theatre,  hall,  or  other  public  building,  when  the  same 
is  occupied  by  the  public,  under  a  penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars  for 
•each  and  every  violation  of  this  section. 

^13.  All  persons  owning,  leasing,  managing,  or  having  charge 
•of  any  church,  theatre,  opera  house,  public  hall,  or  place  of  amuse- 
ment in  The  Town  of  Lake,  shall  be  required  to  have  all  doors  lead- 
ing to  or  from  the  same  hung  so  as  to  open  out  therefrom. 

§  14.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  members  of  the  police  force  to 
.see  that  the  foregoing  provisions  in  section  12  are  strictly  observed, 
and  in  case  of  any  violation  thereof,  forthwith  to  proceed  to  clear  any 
obstructed  aisle,  passage-way,  or  lobby,  and  to  arrest  the  offender  or 
offenders. 

§  15.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  owner  or  lessee  of  every 
licensed  theatre,  hall,  or  other  building,  to  keep  and  preserve  good 
order  in  and  about  his  premises,  and  to  that  end  he  shall  hire,  and 
keep  at  his  own  expense  a  sufficient  number  of  special  police  patrol- 
men. 

§  1 6.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  or  persons  to  stand  in 
the  lobby  or  outer  entrance  to  any  licensed  theatre,  hall,  or  other  public 
building,  or  on  the  sidewalk  adjacent  to,  and  within  fifty  feet  of  such 
•entrance,  after  a  request  to  move  on,  made  by  the  owner,  lessee,  or 
any  police  officer,  under  a  penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each  and  every 
such  offense. 

§  17.  No  boxing  or  sparring  exhibition,  shooting,  jumping,  racing 
or  other  games  or  theatrical  or  musical  entertainments  will  be  allowed 
in  The  Town  of  Lake  on  the  first  day  of  the  week,  commonly  called 
Sunday,  under  a  penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  and  every 
such  offense. 


AUCTIONS  AND  AUCTIONEERS.  1 59 


CHAPTER     XXVI. 


AUCTIONS    AND    AUCTIONEERS. 

SECTION  i.  No  goods,  wares,  merchandise,  or  other  thing  what- 
ever, shall  be  sold  at  auction,  or  exposed  for  sale  in  any  street,  avenue, 
alley,  or  public  place  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  unless  permission  in  writ- 
ing be  first  obtained  from  the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees,  who 
is  hereby  authorized  to  grant  a  permit  to  make  such  sales,  when,  in 
his  opinion,  such  permission  will  not  interfere  with  the  free  travel  of 
any  such  street,  avenue,  alley,  or  .public  place,  and  will  not  be  in  any 
respect  injurious  to  the  town  or  inhabitants  thereof. 

^  2.  All  sales  of  goods,  wares  and  merchandise,  or  other  per- 
sonal property,  at  public  auction,  within  the  town,  except  such  as  are 
made  under. and  by  virtue  of  legal  process,  shall  be  made  by  a  per- 
son, his  co-partner  or  clerks,  who  shall  have  first  obtained  a  license 
for  such  purpose,  as  herein  provided. 

§  3.  No  bellman  or  crier,  nor  any  drum  or  fife,  or  other  instru- 
ment of  music,  nor  any  show  signal,  or  means  of  attracting  the  atten- 
tion of  passengers,  other  than  a  sign  or  flag,  shall  be  employed,  or 
suffered  or  permitted  to  be  used,  at  or  near  any  place  of  sale,  or  at 
or  near  any  auction  room,  or  near  any  auction  whatsoever. 

§  4.  Any  person  may  become  an  auctioneer  and  be  licensed  to 
sell  real  and  personal  property  at  public  auction,  at  a  place  to  be  named 
in  said  license,  upon  paying  to  the  treasurer  the  sum  of  twenty-five  dol- 
lars, and  executing  a  bond  to  the  town,  with  two  sureties,  to  be 
approved  by  the  president,  in  the  penal  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars 
conditioned  for  the  due  observance  of  the  ordinances  of  the  town. 

§  5.  Every  person  who  may  wish  to  obtain  a  license,  as  above 
mentioned,  shall  apply  in  writing  for  the  same  to  the  president,  setting 
forth  therein  his  proposed  place  of  business  and  the  names  of  his 
sureties,  and  in  no  case  shall  such  license  be  transferable,  or  the 
place  of  business  changed,  without  the  consent,  in  writing,  of  the 
president. 

§  6.  All  licenses  to  auctioneers  shall  be  made  to  expire  on  the 
last  day  of  June  in  each  year,  and  shall  be  subject  to  revocation 


l6o  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

by  the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees,  whenever  it  shall  appear 
to  his  satisfaction  that  the  party  so  licensed  shall  have  violated  any 
provision  of  any  ordinance  of  the  town  relating  to  auctions  or  auc- 
tion sales,  or  any  condition  of  the  bond  aforesaid. 

§  7.  Any  person  or  persons  who  shall  sell,  or  attempt  to  sell, 
at  public  auction,  in  this  town,  any  goods,  chattels,  or  personal  prop- 
perty  whatever,  except  under  and  by  virtue  of  legal  process,  or  under 
and  by  virtue  of  a  mortgage,  without  first  having  obtained  a  license 
therefor,  as  above  required,  shall  forfeit  and  pay,  for  each  offense, 
the  sum  of  ten  dollars. 

^  8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  auctioneer  who  shall  offer  for 
sale  any  watch,  plate,  or  jewelry  of  any  kind,  to  announce  to  the 
persons  present,  in  a  loud  voice,  whether  the  same  be  gold,  gold 
plate,  silver,  silver  plate,  or  base  metal,  before  proceeding  to  sell  the 
same.  Every  auctioneer  who  shall  offer  for  sale  any  watch,  plate, 
•or  other  jewelry,  without  first  making  such  announcement,  shall,  on 
conviction  thereof,  pay  a  fine  of  not  more  than  fifty  dollars  nor  less 
than  ten  dollars,  for  each  offense. 

§  9.  The  purchaser  at  an  auction  sale  of  any  watch,  plate,  or 
jewelry  shall  have  the  right  to  return  it  to  the  auctioneer  at  any  time 
within  five  days  from  the  day  of  sale,  if  the  watch,  plate  or  jewelry 
be  not  of  the  quality  represented  to  him,  and  the  auctioneer  shall 
return  to  the  purchaser  the  price  of  the  article.  Should  he  refuse  to 
do  so,  he  shall  forfeit  his  license  and  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  fifty  dol- 
lars :  And  it  is  hereby  provided,  that  if  it  shall  be  made  to  appear, 
to  the  satisfaction  of  the  president,  that  the  place  of  sale,  or  the 
place  of  business,  of  any  such  auctioneer  shall  have  been  closed  at  any 
time  during  said  five  days,  for  the  purpose  of  avoiding  an  offer  to 
return  any  such  article  so  sold,  the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees 
shall  revoke  the  license  of  such  auctioneer. 

§  10.  Any  auctioneer  who  shall  exhibit  and  offer  for  sale  at  auc- 
tion any  article,  and  induce  its  purchase  by  any  bidder,  and  who 
shall  afterward  substitute  any  article  in  lieu  of  that  offered  to  and 
purchased  by  the  bidder,  shall  forfeit  his  license  and  be  liable  to  a 
fine  of  fifty  dollars. 

^  ii.  Any  auctioneer  or  person  being  present  when  any  watch, 
pla\e  or  jewelry  is  offered  for  sale,  who  shall  knowingly,  with 
intent  to  induce  any  person  or  persons  to  purchase  the  same,  or  any 
part  thereof,  make  any  false  representation  or  statement  as  to  the 
ownership  of,  or  the  character  or  quality  of,  the  article  or  articles  so 
offered  for  sale,  or  as  to  the  poverty  or  circumstances  of  the  owner  or 


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pretended  owner  of  such  article  or  articles,  shall,  on  conviction 
thereof,  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  fifty  dollars ;  and  if  such  false  repre- 
sentation is  made  by  such  auctioneer,  or  by  any  other  person  with 
such  auctioneer's  knowledge  and  consent  or  connivance,  the  license 
of  such  auctioneer  shall  be  forfeited. 

§12.  Every  auctioneer,  at  the  time  of  receiving  his  license,  shall 
file  with  the  town  clerk  a  writing,  signed  by  him,  designating  the 
co-partner  and  the  clerks  mentioned  in  section  2  of  this  chapter,  and 
upon  any  change  of  such  co-partner  or  clerks  shall  file  a  like  writing 
setting  forth  such  change ;  and  if  any  auctioneer  shall  permit  any 
other  person  than  such  co-partner  or  clerks  to  sell  any  article  at  auc- 
tion at  the  place  designated  in  such  license,  he  shall  forfeit  his  license, 
and,  on  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  fined  twenty  dollars  for  each 
offense. 

§13.  All  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  shall  apply  to  such  co- 
partner and  clerks  while  acting  as  auctioneer,  and  such  co-partner 
and  clerks,  so  acting  as  auctioneer,  shall  be  subject  to  all  the  penalties 
hereby  imposed  upon  auctioneers  for  like  offenses  or  violation  of  this 
chapter. 

§14.  No  auctioneer,  his  co-partner  or  clerks,  shall  sell,  or  expose 
for  sale,  at  public  auction,  any  goods,  wares,  merchandise,  or  other 
personal  property,  to  any  person  or  persons,  who,  at  the  time  of  bid- 
ding for  the  same,  or  whilst  examining  the  same,  shall  be  on  the 
sidewalk  or  carriage-way  of  any  street  in  the  town. 

§15.  In  case  of  the  death  of  any  auctioneer  before  the  time 
limited  in  his  license  shall  have  expired,  his  co-partner  or  co-partners 
if  he  has  any,  or  his  personal  representative,  may  continue  to  act 
under  the  license  for  the  unexpired  time. 

§  1 6.  No  auctioneer  shall  sell,  or  offer  for  sale,  at  public  auction, 
any  goods,  wares,  merchandise  or  other  personal  property,  in  any 
place,  house,  store  or  other  building,  other  than  in  the  place, 
house,  store  or  building  where  he  is  authorized  to  sell  by  his  said 
license,  without  a  special  permit  from  the  president. 

§  17.  Any  person  or  persons  violating  any  provision  or  provis- 
ions of  this  chapter,  where  no  other  penalty  is  imposed,  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  and 
every  offense. 


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CHAPTER     XXVII. 


BONDS. 

SECTION  i.  By  the  indorsement  of  the  treasurer  upon  any  bonds 
of  the  town,  payable  to  bearer,  when  presented  for  that  purpose  by 
the  owner,  such  bond  shall  become  payable  only  to  the  party  named 
in  such  indorsement,  his  assignees  or  legal  representatives,  anything  on 
the  face  of  such  bond  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding.  The  affida- 
vit of  the  party  presenting  any  such  bond,  or  his  authorized  agent  or 
attorney,  that  he  is  the  owner  thereof,  shall  be  sufficient  evidence  to- 
the  treasurer  of  such  ownership. 

§  2.  The  indorsement  of  the  treasurer  may  be  in  the  follow- 
ing form :  "  By  virtue  of  the  act  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Illinois, 
the  ordinances  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  and  the  consent  of  (A.  B.),  the 
owner  of  this  bond,  this  bond  is  made  payable  only  to  said  (A.  B.), 
his  assignees  or  legal  representatives,  anything  on  the  face  thereof  to- 
the  contrary  notwithstanding.  (C.  D.),  treasurer."  A  fee  of  fifty 
cents  for  each  indorsement  shall  be  paid  by  the  owner  of  the  bond 
into  the  town  treasury. 

§  3.  Coupons  may  also  be  indorsed  by  the  treasurer  in  a  shorter 
form,  and  a  fee  of  ten  cents  charged  therefor. 


CHAPTER     XXVIII. 


BREAD. 

SECTION  i.  All  bread  baked  or  offered  and  exposed  for  sale 
in  The  Town  of  Lake,  shall  be  made  of  good  and  wholesome  flour 
or  meal,  and  sold  by  avoirdupois  weight. 

§  2.  All  bread  shall  be  made  into  loaves  of  one  and  a  half,  two, 
two  and  a  half,  or  three  pounds,  avoirdupois  weight,  and  each  loaf 
shall  be  marked  with  the  numbers  indicating  the  weight  of  said  loaf, 
and  also  with  the  initial  letters  of  the  name  of  the  baker  thereof. 


BREAD.  163 

§  3.  If  any  baker  or  other  person  shall  make  for  sale,  offer,  or 
procure  to  be  sold,  any  bread  of  any  other  than  wholesome  flour  or 
meal,  or  shall  sell,  or  expose  for  sale,  any  bread  contrary  to  the  pre- 
ceding section  of  this  chapter,  such  person  shall  be  subject  to  a  pen- 
alty of  ten  dollars  for  each  and  every  such  offense. 

&  4.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  to  carry  on  the 
trade  or'  business  of  a  baker,  or  engage  in  making  bread  for  others, 
either  in  person  or  by  employing  any  other 'person  to  carry  on  said 
trade  or  business  under  his  or  her  direction,  or  for  his  or  her  profit  or 
benefit,  within  this  town,  without  having  first  obtained  from  the  town 
clerk  a  permit  for  that  purpose,  and  paying  a  fee  of  one  dollar  therefor, 
and  having  his,  her  or  their  name  or  names  and  place  of  business 
recorded  in  a  book  kept  for  that  purpose  in  the  town  clerk's  office, 
under  a  penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offense,  and  ten  dol- 
lars for  each  and  every  day  the  same  shall  be  continued. 

§  5 .  It  shall  be  lawful  for  any  member  of  the  department  of  police 
duly  authorized  by  the  captain,  to  enter,  in  the  day  time,  into  any 
house,  store,  shop,  bake-house,  warehouse,  or  other  building,  where 
any  bread  is  baked,  stored  or  deposited,  or  offered  for  sale;  and  also,, 
to  stop,  detain  and  examine,  any  person  or  persons,  wagon  or  other 
vehicle  carrying  bread,  and  to  search  for,  view,  try,  and  weigh,  all  or 
any  bread  that  shall  be  there  found;  and  if,  on  any  such  search, 
there  shall  be  found  any  bread  made  in  violation  of,  or  contrary  to, 
any  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  any  of  the  persons  above  named 
may  seize  such  bread,  and  shall  immediately  enter  complaint  before 
some  justice  of  the  peace,  against  the  person  or  persons  guilty  of 
such  violation. 

§  6.  Whenever  any  bread  shall  have  been  seized  for  a  violation, 
of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  the  same  shall  be  taken 
immediately  to  the  office  of  the  chief  of  police,  and  there  deposited 
and  kept,  to  be  used  on  the  trial  of  the  person  or  persons  against 
whom  complaint  is  made;  and  if  he,  she  or  they  shall  be  convicted, 
such  bread  shall  be  retained  by  the  chief  until  the  fine,  if  any  shall 
have  been  imposed,  and  the  costs  of  suit,  shall  have  been  satisfied: 
Provided,  that  bread  made  of  unwholesome  materials  shall  not  in 
any  case  be  returned  to  the  owner,  but  shall  be  destroyed. 

§  7.  Any  person  or  persons  to  whom  any  such  bread  shall 
have  been  returned  and  delivered  up,  or  any  other  person  who  shall 
again  offer  or  expose  the  same  for  sale,  shall  for  the  second  and 
every  subsequent  offense,  be  subject  to  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  ten 
dollars. 
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164  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

§  8.  The  provisions  of  section  2  of  this  chapter  shall  not  apply 
to  biscuits,  buns,  rolls,  or  fancy  bread,  weighing  less  than  a  quarter 
of  a  pound. 


CHAPTER     XXIX. 


BUTTERINE. 

SECTION  i.  No  person  shall  sell,  or  offer  for  sale,  or  expose  to 
sale,  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  any  compound,  article  or  thing,  as  but- 
ter, or  representing  or  holding  out  the  same  to  be  butter,  except 
wholly  made  from  pure  cream. 

§  2.  Any  person  having  in  his  or  her  possession,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  sale,  or  exposing  to  sale,  or  offering  to  sell,  or  selling,  any 
compound  whatever  in  lieu  of,  or  as  a  substitute  for,  or  to  be  used 
as  butter,  shall  have  the  box,  vessel  or  package  containing  the  same 
plainly  stamped,  branded  or  marked  with  the  appropriate  name  of 
such  compound,  article  or  thing,  which  name  shall  be  other  than 
butter.  If  such  compound,  article  or  thing  shall  contain  lard,  the 
box.  vessel  or  package  containing  the  same  shall  be  plainly  stamped, 
branded  or  marked  "  suine  "  or  "butterine";  and  if  it  shall  con- 
tain tallow,  the  box,  vessel  or  package  containing  the  same  shall  be 
plainly  stamped,  branded  or  marked  "oleomargarine'*:  and  if  it 
shall  contain  any  grease  or  fat  whatever,  except  the  grease  or  fat  of 
butter,  the  box,  vessel  or  package  containing  the  same  shall  be 
plainly  stamped,  branded  or  marked  with  some  appropriate  name, 
other  than  butter. 

§  3.  The  supervisor  is  hereby  authorized  to  appoint  a  butter  and 
cheese  inspector,  giving  him  the  necessary  authority  to  examine  any 
butter  and  cheese  that  may  be  manufactured,  or  exposed  for  sale,  in 
violation  of  the  law;  said  officer  to  serve  without  salary  from  the 
town. 

§  4.  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter 
shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  exceeding  one 
hundred  dollars. 


COACHES,  CABS  AND  CARTS.  165 


CHAPTER  XXX 


COACHES,  CABS  AND  CARTS. 

SECTION  i.  No  person  or  persons  shall  hire  out,  keep  or  use  for 
hire,  or  cause  to  be  kept  or  used  for  hire,  for  the  carrying  or  con- 
veying of  persons  within  The  Town  of  Lake,  any  hackney  coach, 
•cab,  coach,  omnibus,  or  other  vehicle  or  vehicles,  carriage  or  car- 
riages of  any  description  or  name  whatever,  without  a  license  so 
to  do. 

f2.  The  president  is  hereby  authorized  to  license,  under  his  hand, 
the  seal  of  the  town,  any  person  or  persons,  residents  of  said 
town,  over  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  and  being  the  owner  or 
owners  of  any  or  either  of  the  said  vehicles  or  carriages,  to  keep 
and  use  for  hire  and  the  conveyance  of  persons,  any  or  either  of 
said  carriages  or  vehicles,  upon  every  such  owner  executing  a  bond 
to  The  Town  of  Lake,  as  hereinafter  provided,  and  paying  a  license 
fee  hereinafter  fixed. 

§  3.  All  licenses  granted  under  this  chapter  may  be  transferred 
by  the  president,  in  his  discretion. 

§  4.  Before  any  license  shall  issue  to  any  person  to  keep  or 
use  for  hire,  or  drive,  any  hackney  coach,  cab  or  vehicle,  he  shall 
•execute  a  bond  to  said  town  in  the  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars,  with 
sureties  to  be  approved  by  the  president,  conditioned  for  the  faithful 
•observance  of  all  ordinances  of  the  town  relating  to  or  regulating 
hackmen  and  drivers,  and  all  others  pursuing  like  occupations. 

§  5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  clerk  to  keep  a  register  of  the 
names  of  the  persons  to  whom  each  license  is  granted  or  transferred, 
the  date  when  issued  or  transferred,  the  number  of  the  license,  and 
the  description  of  the  vehicle  licensed.  All  licenses  granted  under 
this  chapter,  unless  revoked,  shall  continue  in  force  until  the  last  day 
of  June,  after  the  date  of  the  issuing  thereof. 

§  6.  Every  person  so  licensed  shall  forthwith  cause  the  name 
of  the  owner  and  the  number  of  his  license  to  be  plainly  painted  in 
letters  at  least  one  and  a  half  inches  in  length,  in  a  conspicuous  place 
•on  the  outside  of  each  side  of  the  vehicle,  and  shall  keep  the  same 
plain  and  distinct  at  all  times  when  used,  during  the  continuance 
of  such  license;  but  upon  the  expiration  of  said  license  (unless 


1 66  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

renewed)  "such  person  shall  immediately  cause  the  said  name  and 
number  to  be  erased  from  said  vehicle,  and  shall  not  allow  said 
vehicle  to  be  used  with  said  name  or  number  thereon. 

§  7.  Every  hackney  coach,  cab,  livery  carriage,  or  other  vehicle 
for  the  conveyance  of  persons  (except  omnibuses  running  upon 
established  lines),  when  driven  or  used  for  hire,  or  waiting  or  stand- 
ing for  use,  on  any  public  street  or  place  in  the  night  time,  shall 
have  fixed  upon  some  conspicuous  part  of  the  outside  thereof,  a 
lighted  lamp  with  plain  glass  front  and  sides,  with  the  number  of 
the  license  painted  with  black  paint  on  the  sides  and  front  of  each  of 
said  lamps,  in  distinct  and  legible  figures,  at  least  one  and  a  half 
inches  in  length,  and  so  placed  that  said  numbers  and  lamps  may  be 
distinctly  seen  from  the  inside  and  outside  of  such  vehicle.  And 
every  hackney  coach,  cab,  carriage  or  other  vehicle  for  the  convey- 
ance of  passengers,  which  has  a  door  or  doors  to  the  same,  shall 
have  a  knob  or  handle  upon  the  inside  of  such  door  or  doors,  by 
which  said  door  or  doors  may  be  easily  opened  from  the  inside  of 
such  vehicle. 

^  8.  All  omnibuses  running  within  the  town  and  required  to 
be  licensed,  shall,  when  running  in  the  night  time,  have  fixed  in. 
some  conspicuous  place  in  front  thereof,  so  as  to  be  distinctly  seen 
from  the  inside  and  outside,  a  lighted  lamp,  with  the  number  of  license 
distinctly  painted  thereon  in  figures  of  one  inch  and  a  half  in  length,. 

§  9.  No  person  except  a  licensed  owner,  shall  hereafter  drive 
any  licensed  hackney  coach,  cab  or  other  vehicle  for  the  conveyance 
of  passengers  for  hire  or  reward,  without  first  obtaining  a  license 
as  such  driver,  nor  shall  the  owner  or  owners  permit  any  person, 
except  a  licensed  driver  or  owner,  to  drive  any  licensed  carriage  or 
vehicle  owned  or  used  by  him  or  them. 

§  10.  No  coach,  cab  or  other  vehicle  for  the  conveyance  of 
persons,  shall  have  more  than  one  driver,  and  every  such  driver 
shall  be  licensed  by  the  president,  on  request  of  the  owner  of  any 
vehicle,  and  such  licenses  may  be  transferred  on  such  request, 
and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  clerk  to  keep  a  list  of  the  drivers,  so 
licensed,  and  the  number  of  the  vehicle  for  which  each  driver  shall 
be  licensed,  and  of  all  transfers  of  such  licenses;  any  driver's  license 
may  be  revoked  by  the  president  in  his  discretion. 

§11.  All  licenses  granted  under  this  chapter  shall  designate  the 
coach,  cab,  omnibus  or  vehicle  by  their  number  or  name,  and  the 
owner  or  owners,  driver  or  drivers,  shall  be  severally  liable  for  each 
and  every  violation  of  this  article  by  such  owner  or  owners,  or  their 
driver  or  drivers. 


COACHES,    CABS    AND    CARTS.  167 

§  12.  Every  person  so  licensed,  shall,  while  acting  as  driver 
of  such  vehicle,  wear  conspicuously,  a  badge,  consisting  of  a  rec- 
tangular silver  plate,  or  plated  metal,  one  and  three-fourths  inches 
long  and  one  and  one-eighth  inches  wide,  having  the  corners  cut  oft'; 
on  said  plate  shall  be  engraved  the  word  "  hack  "  or  other  word 
designating  the  kind  of  vehicle  which  he  is  licensed  to  drive,  in  let- 
ters not  less  than  five-sixteenths  of  an  inch  long,  and  the  number  of 
the  hack  or  other  vehicle  in  figures  not  less  than  seven-sixteenths  of 
an  inch  long,  said  letters  and  figures  to  be  boldly  cut  in  roman  char- 
acters and  filled  in  with  black;  said  badge  shall  be  provided  with  a 
pin  or  other  fastening,  by  which  the  same  may  be  and  shall  be  worn 
in  a  conspicuous  place  on  the  outside  of  the  breast  of  the  coat,  so 
ihat  it  may  not  be  hidden  either  by  accident  or  design. 

§  13.  If  the  owner  of  any  hackney  coach,  carriage,  cab  or 
•other  vehicle,  who  may  have  received  a  license  as  aforesaid,  shall 
.sell  or  dispose  of  such  coach,  carriage,  cab  or  other  vehicle,  before 
the  expiration  of  such  license,  such  licensed  owner  shall,  within  five 
•days  of  the  date  of  such  sale  or  disposal,  report  the  same  to  the 
president,  and  the  president  may  transfer  such  license  on  the  pay- 
ment of  'one  dollar;  and  every  such  owner  of  a  hackney  coach,  cab 
or  other  vehicle  who  shall  neglect  to  report  such  sale  or  disposal  as 
.aforesaid,  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  five  dollars. 

^  14.  Any  person  who  shall  keep  or  drive  any  hackney  coach» 
cab  or  other  vehicle  for  the  conveyance  of  persons  from  place  to 
place  within  The  Town  of  Lake,  for  hire  or  reward,  without  being 
.licensed  as  aforesaid,  shall  ba  liable  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dol- 
lars for  each  and  every  such  offense. 

§15.  There  shall  be  charged  and  paid  to  the  president  for  the  use 
of  the  town,  on  issuing  the  said  licenses,  by  the  parties  to  whom 
they  may  be  granted,  the  following  sums: 

(i.)  For  all  hackney  coaches,  and  carriages  drawn  by  two  horses 
or  other  animals,  and  occupying  any  public  stand,  or  that  shall  run 
for  the  conveyance  of  passengers,  for  hire  or  reward,  within  the 
town,  shall  be  charged  for  license  each,  the  sum  of  five  dollars  per 
.annum. 

(2.)  For  all  cabs  or  other  vehicles  drawn  by  one  horse  or  other 
animal,  that  shall  run  for  the  conveyance  of  passengers,  for  hire  or 
reward,  within  the  town;  and  all  carriages,  cabs  or  other  vehicles, 
kept  or  used  for  hire  by  any  keeper  or  keepers  of  livery  stables  for 
the  carrying  or  conveying  of  persons,  within  The  Town  of  Lake, 
.shall  be  charged  for  license  each,  such  carriage,  cab,  or  other  vehicle, 
the  sum  of  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents  per  annum. 


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§  16.  The  prices  or  rates  of  fare  to  be  asked  or  demanded  by 
the  owners  or  drivers  of  hackney  coaches,  cabs  or  other  vehicles 
for  the  conveyance  of  passengers,  for  hire,  shall  be  as  follows: 

(1)  For  conveying  one  or  two  passengers  not  exceeding  one  mile, 
one  dollar. 

(2)  For  conveying  one  or  two  passengers  any  distance  over  one 
mile,  and  less  than  two  miles,  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents. 

(3)  For  each  additional  passenger  of  the  same  party  or  family, 
fifty  cents. 

(4)  For  conveying  one  or  two  passengers  in  said  town  any  dis- 
tance exceeding  two  miles,  two  dollars. 

(5)  For  each  additional  passenger  of  the  same  family  or  party, 
fifty  cents. 

(6)  For  conveying  children  between  five  and  fourteen  years  of 
age,  half  of  the  above  price  may  be  charged  for  like  distances,  but 
for  children  under  five  years  of  age,  no  charge  shall  be  made. 

(7)  For  the  use  by  the  day  of    any  hackney  coach,  or  other 
vehicle  drawn  by  two  horses  or  other  animals,  with  one   or  more 
passengers,  eight  dollars  per  day. 

(8)  For  the  use  of  any  such  carriage  or  vehicle  by  the  hour,, 
with  one  or  more  passengers,  with  the  privilege  of  going  from  place 
to  place,  and  stopping  as  often  as  may  be  required,  as  follows: 

For  the  first  hour,  two  dollars. 

For  each  additional  hour,  or  part  of  an  hour,  one  dollar. 

(9)  For  the  use   of    any  cab,  or  other  vehicle   drawn  by  one 
horse,  or   other  animal,  by  the  hour,  with  the   privilege  of  going 
from   place   to  place,  with  one  or  more  passengers,  and   stopping 
when  required: 

For  the  first  hour,  one  dollar. 

For  each  additional  hour  or  part  of  an  hour,  fifty  cents. 

For  the  use  of  any  such  carriage  by  the  day,  four  dollars. 

§  17.  Every  passenger  shall  be  allowed  to  have  conveyed  upon 
such  vehicle,  without  charge,  his  ordinary  traveling  baggage,  not 
exceeding  in  any  case  one  trunk  and  twenty-five  pounds  of  other 
baggage.  For  every  additional  package,  where  the  whole  weight 
of  baggage  is  over  one  hundred  pounds,  if  conveyed  to  any  place 
within  the  town  limits,  the  owner  or  driver  shall  be  permitted  to 
charge  fifteen  cents. 

§  1 8.  Whenever  any  package  or  article  of  baggage,  or  goods 
of  any  kind,  shall  be  left  in  or  on  any  hackney,  or  other  coach,  cab, 
omnibus,  carriage,  dray,  cart,  wagon,  or  other  licensed  vehicle  for 


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the  conveyance  of  passengers,  goods  or  baggage;  or' when  any 
such  package  or  article  shall  be  left  in  the  custody  of  the  driver  of 
any  such  vehicle,  such  driver  shall,  upon  the  discovery  of  such 
package  or  article,  forthwith  deliver  the  same  at  the  central  police 
station  of  said  town,  into  the  hands  of  the  officer  in  charge  of  said 
station,  unless  such  package  or  article  shall  be  sooner  delivered  to 
the  owner  thereof,  or  the  order  of  such  owner.  Any  neglect  or 
refusal  on  the  part  of  the  driver  of  any  vehicle,  as  aforesaid,  to 
comply  with  the  provisions  hereof,  and  any  violation  of  any  clause 
or  provision  of  this  section,  shall  subject  such  driver  to  the  penalty 
of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  for  each  oftense. 

§  19.  All  disputes,  as  to  prices  or  distance,  shall  be  settled  by 
the  captain  of  police  or  other  member  of  the  police  force. 

§  20.  In  all  cases,  when  the  hiring  of  a  hackney  ccach,  cab,  or 
other  vehicle  for  the  conveyance  of  passengers,  is  not  at  the  time 
thereof  specified  to  be  by  the  hour,  it  shall  be  deemed  to  be  by  the  mile; 
and  for  any  detention  exceeding  fifteen  minutes,  when  so  working 
by  the  mile,  the  owner  or  driver  may  demand  at  the  rate  of  one 
dollar  per  hour. 

§21.  The  owner  or  driver  of  any  such  ^coach  or  cab  who  may 
have  demanded  and  received  any  fare  in  excess  of  what  is  provided 
for  in  this  chapter,  shall  return  the  excess  received,  and  be  liable  to  a 
penalty  of  five  dollars,  and  his  license  shall  be  revoked. 

§  22.  Every  licensed  owner  or  driver  of  any  hackney  coach  or 
cab,  shall  have  the  right  to  demand  his  fare  of  the  person  or  persons 
employing  him,  on  entering  his  coach  or  cab,  and  may  refuse  to 
convey  any  person  who  will  not  comply  with  said  demand. 

§  23.  Any  duly  licensed  hackney  coach,  cab,  or  other  vehicle 
for  the  conveyance  of  passengers,  may  stand,  while  waiting  for 
employment,  at  any  place  in  The  Town  of  Lake  that  may  be  desig- 
nated by  the  supervisor  of  said  town,  as  a  hack  stand. 

§  24.  No  owner  or  driver  of  any  hackney  coach,  cab,  coach,  or 
other  carriage  or  vehicle  licensed  as  aforesaid,  shall  refuse  to  con- 
vey in  said  town  any  person  with  or  without  baggage  as  aforesaid, 
when  applied  to  for  that  purpose,  or,  having  undertaken  to  convey 
such  person,  shall  omit  or  neglect  so  to  do,  under  the  penalty  of  ten 
dollars  for  each  oftense. 

§  25.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  several  officers  and  members  of 
the  police  department  to  seethat  all  the  ordinances  regulating  hackney 


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coaches,  cabs  and  all  other  vehicles  for  the  conveyance  of  persons 
for  hire,  are  strictly  complied  with,  and  any  policeman  shall  have 
power  and  authority  to  order  away  from  the  stands  and  from  all 
-other  places,  any  hackney  coach,  carriage  or  cab  not  provided  with 
a  number  or  with  lamps  fixed  up,  lighted,  and  numbered,  as  herein- 
before required,  or  not  furnished  with  proper  and  suitable  harness  or 
horses,  or  whenever  the  same  shall  be  improperly  obstructing  the 
way  or  street,  or  whenever  the  horses  attached  thereto  are  unruly, 
or  whenever  the  driver  or  person  having  charge  of  any  such  hack- 
ney coach,  carriage  or  cab,  is  intoxicated,  or  in  any  manner  misbe- 
haves himself. 

§  26.  If  any  person  having  charge  of  such  hackney  coach,  car- 
riage or  cab,  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  obey  any  such  order  of  any 
police  officer,  he  or  they  shall  forfeit  and  pay  for  every  such  offense 
the  sum  of  five  dollars,  to  be  recovered  from  the  owner  or  driver  of 
such  hackney  coach,  carriage,  or  cab,  severally  and  respectively. 

§  27.  All  the  provisions  and  penalties  of  this  chapter,  except 
those  requiring  lamps,  shall  apply  to  sleighs  which  shall  come  upon 
or  use  the  public  stand  designated  for  them,  and  to  the  owners  and 
drivers  thereof,  to  be  used  or  driven  for  the  conveyance  of  passen- 
gers^for  hire  in  this  town;  and  said  owners  or  drivers  of  hackney 
coaches  and  cabs  are  hereby  permitted  to  use  sleighs,  when  feasible, 
in  place  of  such  coaches  and  cabs. 

§  28.  Every  owner  or  driver,  or  person  having  charge  of  any 
hackney  coach  or  cab,  shall,  upon  being  requested  to  do  so,  give  to 
any  person  or  persons  the  number  of  his  coach  or  cab,  the  names 
of  the  owner  and  driver  thereof,  and  their  place  of  abode  and  stable. 

|l  §  29.  Every  cart,  truck,  wagon,  dray  or  other  vehicle  drawn 
by  onejor  more  horses  or  other  animals,  which  shall  be  kept,  used, 
driven,  or  employed  for  the  transportation  or  conveyance  of  goods, 
wares,  merchandise,  or  other  articles,  from  place  to  place,  within  The 
Town  of  Lake,  for  hire,  wages,  or  pay  for  such  transportation,  shall 
be  deemed  a  "  public  cart "  within  the  meaning  of  this  chapter,  and 
every  person  who  shall  set  up,  or  so  keep,  use  or  employ  any  such 
public  cart,  without  first  obtaining  license  therefor  from  the  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  trustees  of  said  town  as  is  hereinafter  provided, 
shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  violation  of  this  chapter. 

§  30.  The  president  shall,  from  time  to  time,  license  and  appoint 
so  many  and  such  persons,  companies,  or  corporations  as  may  apply 
therefor  to  set  up  and  keep  public  carts  in  said  town.  All  per- 
sons licensed  as  aforesaid  to  keep  public  carts,  shall  be  deemed  to 


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be  public  cartmen  within  the  meaning  of  this  chapter;  but  it  shall  not 
be  lawful  for  any  person  to  receive  or  hold  a  license  to  keep  public 
carts  or  to  be  a  public  cartman,  unless  he  be  a  resident  of  the  county 
of  Cook,  and  is  the  actual  owner  of  the  cart  or  carts  so  licensed 
to  be  kept  as  public  carts;  and  the  president  may  examine,  under 
oath,  all  persons  applying  for  or  holding  any  such  license,  touch- 
ing their  qualifications  as  aforesaid;  and  all  licenses  other  than 
to  persons  so  qualified  shall  be  void. 

§  31.  The  president  shall  require  and  receive  for  the  use  of 
the  town  from  every  person  to  whom  he  may  grant  a  license,  the 
following  license  fees: 

(1)  For  all  baggage,  express  and  furniture  wagons  and  vehicles, 
drawn  by  two  or  more  horses  or  other  animals,  shall  be  charged  for 
license,  each  the  sum  of  five  dollars  per  annum. 

(2)  For  all  baggage,  express  and  furniture  wagons  and  vehicles, 
drawn  by  one  horse  or  other  animal,  shall  be  charged  for  license, 
each  the  sum  of  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents  per  annum. 

(3)  For  all  drays,  carts,  wagons  and  other  vehicles  running  within 
said  town  for  hire  or  reward,  and  not  otherwise  expressly  provided 
for,  shall  be  charged  for  license,  each  the  sum  of  two  dollars  and 
fifty  cents  per  annum. 

(4)  For  all  wagons  and  other  vehicles  drawn  by  four  or  more 
horses  or  other  animals,  for  the  conveyance  of  any  heavy  article  or 
thing  for  hire  from  place  to  place  in  said  town,  shall  be  charged  for 
license,  each  the  sum  of  seven  dollars  per  annum:  Provided,  that 
nothing  herein  contained    shall    include    omnibuses    and    baggage 
wagons  running  to  and  from  hotels  free  of  charge. 

§  32.  All  licenses  to  persons  to  keep  public  carts,  and  to  public 
cartmen,  shall  expire  on  the  last  day  of  June  next  after  the  date 
thereof,  unless  sooner  revoked,  as  provided  in  this  chapter. 

§  33.  No  public  cart  shall  be  used  within  said  town  except  it  be 
duly  licensed,  and  the  person  to  whom  license  is  granted  to  keep 
and  use  a  public  cart,  shall,  for  all  the  purposes  of  this  chapter,  be  con- 
sidered the  owner  thereof,  and  responsible  for  all  articles  intrusted 
to,  and  for  the  conduct  of,  the  driver  thereof,  and  liable  equally  with 
the  driver  thereof,  to  all  forfeitures,  penalties  and  punishments  herein 
contained  or  provided.  No  person  under  the  age  of  sixteen  years 
shall  be  permitted  to  act  as  driver  of  any  licensed  vehicle. 

§  34.  The  supervisor,  may  assign  to  the  owner  of  each  duly 
licensed  public  cart,  a  stand,  where  such  cart  may  remain  waiting  to 


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be  employed,  and  also  a  stand  where  it  may  remain  at  other  times, 
provided  that  no  such  stand  shall  be  assigned  for  a  cart  to  remain  at 
such  other  times  in  front  of  the  premises  of  any  person  other  than 
the  owner  of  such  cart,  against  the  wishes  of  the  owner  or  agent 
thereof;  and  provided  further,  that  carts  shall  not  be  permitted  to 
so  stand  two  abreast  in  any  of  the  streets;  and  every  public  cartman 
who  shall  permit  his  cart  to  stand  loaded,  or  waiting  for  employ- 
ment, or  to  remain  at  other  times  at  any  place  other  than  the  one 
so  assigned  for  such  carts,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  violation  of 
this  chapter. 

§  35.  The  several  officers  and  members  of  the  police  department 
shall  have  power  and  authority  to  order  the  driver  or  other  person 
having  charge  of  any  public  cart  or  any  other  vehicle,  to  remove 
such  cart  or  other  vehicle  away  from  any  place  in  any  of  the  streets, 
which  in  his  or  their  opinion,  may  be  improperly  incumbering  such 
street,  or  obstructing  or  impeding  the  public  travel,  and  any  and 
every  person  neglecting  or  refusing  to  comply  with  or  obey  any 
such  order,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  violation  of  this  chapter. 

§  36.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  driving  or  having 
charge  of  a  public  cart,  to  give  to  any  person  requesting  it,  his  name 
and  place  of  residence,  the  number  of  the  cart  he  is  driving  or  in 
charge  of,  and  the  name  and  place  of  residence  of  the  owner  thereof; 
and  the  refusal  to  do  so  shall  be  deemed  a  violation  of  this  chapter. 

§  37.  If  any  accident  or  injury  shall  happen  to  any  person  or  any 
carriage,  vehicle  or  other  thing  by  reason  of  coming  in  contact  with 
any  public  cart,  or  other  cart  or  vehicle,  or  the  horse  or  horses- 
attached  thereto,  or  anything  loaded  thereon  while  the  same  is- 
moving,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  person  driving  or  having  charge 
of  the  same  to  immediately  stop,  and,  if  necessary,  render  his  assist- 
ance, and  to  give  his  name  and  residence,  and  to  give  the  number  of 
the  cart  or  other  vehicle  he  was  driving,  and  the  name  and  residence 
of  the  owner  thereof,  under  penalty  of  ten  dollars,  to  be  recovered 
from  the  driver  or  owner  of  any  such  cart  or  other  vehicle. 

§  38.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  public  cartman,  or  for  any 
person  driving  or  having  charge  of  any  public  cart,  or  any  other 
cart,  wagon  or  other  vehicle,  to  drive  or  back  any  such  public  cart 
or  any  other  vehicle  onto  the  sidewalk  of  any  of  the  streets  of  said 
town,  or  to  stop  any  such  cart  or  any  other  vehicle  on  any  of  the 
crosswalks  or  intersections  of  streets,  so  as  to  obstruct  or  hinder  the 
travel  along  such  crosswalks  or  intersections  of  streets,  or  to  place 
any  such  carts  or  other  vehicles  crosswise  of  any  street  of  said  town 
except  to  load  thereon  or  unload  therefrom ;  but  in  no  case  shall  it  be 


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lawful  for  any  person  to  permit  such  cart  or  other  vehicle  to  remain- 
so  crosswise  of  any  street  for  a  longer  period  than  may  be  actually 
necessary  for  such  purpose. 

f39-     It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  who  has  been  licensed 
eep  public  carts,  or  to  be  a  public  cartman,  and  whose  license 
has  been  suspended  or  revoked  by  the  president,  to  keep,  drive  or 
use  any  public  cart  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  under  the  penalty  of 
twenty-five  dollars  for.  every  such  offense. 

§  40.  The  prices  or  rates  to  be  charged  by  the  owner  or  driver 
of  any  public  cart  or  other  vehicle  for  the  carrying  of  goods,  wares 
and  merchandise,  and  for  the  loading  and  unloading  of  the  same, 
shall  be  as  follows: 

(1)  For  and  not  exceeding  500  pounds  weight,  one  mile,  fifty 
cents. 

When  the  distance  exceeds  one  mile,  twenty-five  cents  for  each 
and  every  mile. 

Over  500  pounds,  fifty  cents  for  every  additional  500  pounds  or 
fraction  thereof. 

(2)  Household   furniture,  per  load   of    one-horse   truck,  within 
two  miles,  one  dollar. 

When  the  distance  exceeds  two  miles,  an  extra  twenty-five  cents 
for  each  additional  mile. 

(3)  For  a  double-truck  load,  within  two  miles,  three  dollars. 
When  the  distance  exceeds  two  miles,  one  dollar  extra  for  every 

additional  mile. 

§  41.  Every  public  cartman  shall  be  entitled  to  be  paid  the  legal 
rate  or  compensation  allowed  and  provided  in  this  chapter  immediately 
upon  the  carting  or  transportation  of  any  article  or  thing,  and  it  may 
be  lawful  for  any  such  public  cartman  to  retain  any  article  or  thing 
so  carted  or  transported  by  him  for  which  he  is  not  so  paid  his  cart- 
age, and  to  convey  the  same  without  delay  to  the  office  of  the 
superintendent  of  police,  and  he  shall  be  entitled  to  the  lawful  rate  of 
pay  or  compensation  for  the  so  conveying.  All  disputes  or  disagree- 
ments as  to  distance  or  rates  of  compensation,  between  public  cart- 
men  or  public  porters  and  persons  employing  them  or  owing  for 
caftage  or  transportation,  shall  be  determined  by  the  captain  of 
police,  or  any  member  of  the  police  force. 

^  42.-  Every  public  cart  shall  have  fairly  painted  on  the  out- 
side of  the  square  of  the  after-part  of  the  shaft,  or  on  some  other 
conspicuous  place,  on  each  side,  so  as  to  be  easily  seen,  the  name  of 
the  owner,  and  the  number  of  the  license  therefor,  in  plain  letters- 


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and  figures  at  least  two  and  a  half  inches  long,  and  the  driving  or 
using  of  a  public  cart  without  its  being  so  lettered  and  numbered, 
shall  be  deemed  a  violation  of  this  chapter. 

§  43.  Every  person  licensed  as  aforesaid  to  keep  a  public  cart, 
upon  failing  to  renew  the  license  for,  or  disposing  of  or  parting  with 
the  same,  shall  deface,  remove,  and  obliterate  the  license]  number 
therefrom,  and  failing  or  neglecting  to  do  so  shall  be  deemed  to  be  a 
violation  of  this  chapter. 

§  44.  Every  such  person  upon  receiving  his  license  shall  report 
his  residence  to  the  town  clerk,  and  upon  changing  his  residence 
shall,  in  like  manner,  report  his  new  residence,  and  ^the  failing  or 
neglecting  to  do  so  shall  be  deemed  a  violation  of  this  chapter. 

§  45.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  to  keep,  use,  drive, 
or  employ  any  cart  or  other  vehicle  with  numbers  or  figures  thereon 
similar  to  or  resembling  the  numbers  on  public  carts,  or  for  any  per- 
son licensed  to  keep  public  carts  to  place  or  have  any  number  for 
which  he  may  have  received  license  on  more  than  one  cart,  or  to 
use  more  carts  as  public  carts  than  he  may  have  license  for. 

&  46.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  public  cartman  or  any  other 
person,  to  cart  or  transport  through  any  of  the  streets  of  said  town, 
any  planks,  poles,  spars,  timber  or  other  thing  exceeding  thirty  feet 
in  length,  except  on  a  suitable  truck  or  other  vehicle,  and  such  plank 
or  other  thing  shall  be  placed  lengthwise  thereon,  so  as  not  to  pro- 
ject at  either  end  beyond  the  line  of  the  side  or  width  of  such  truck 
or  other  vehicle;  and  all  persons  carting  or  transporting  any  poles, 
planks,  timber,  spars  or  other  things  in  any  other  manner,  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  violation  of  this  chapter. 

§  47.  No  person  driving  any  licensed  public  cart  shall  refuse 
to  convey  within  said  town  the  baggage,  goods  or  merchandise  of  any 
person,  when  applied  to  for  that  purpose,  or  having  undertaken  to 
convey  such  baggage,  goods  or  merchandise,  or  other  thing,  shall 
omit  or  neglect  to  do  so,  or  shall  state  to,  ask,  take,  or  extort  from 
any  person  desiring  to  have,  or  having  had,  conveyed  to  any  place 
in  said  town,  such  baggage,  goods,  merchandise,  or  other  thing,  as  the 
price  or  rate  of  fare  for  such  conveyance,  any  greater  price  or  rate 
of  fare  than  that  herein  established,  under  the  penalty  of  five  dollars 
for  every  offense. 

§  48.  The  owner  or  driver  of  any  hackney  coach,  omnibus, 
cab  or  other  carriage  for  the  conveyance  of  passengers,  or  of  any 
public  cart  or  other  carriage  for  the  conveyance  of  baggage,  lug- 


COACHES,    CABS    AND    CARTS.  175 

gage,  or  other  merchandise,  who  shall  make  any  stand  or  stopping- 
place,  with  or  without  his  vehicle,  while  waiting  for  employment, 
at  any  place  on  any  street  or  public  grounds  adjacent  to  any  railroad 
or  railway  depot,  other  than  the  place  or  places  designated  by  the 
person  having  charge  of  such  depot,  or  by  the  supervisor,  shall  be 
subject  to  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  exceeding  one 
hundred  dollars  for  each  and  every  offense. 

§  49.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  licensed  owner  or  driver  of 
any  coach,  cab,  public  cart  or  other  vehicle,  to  convey  any  person, 
without  his  request,  to  any  place  or  house  of  ill  fame,  or  deceive  any 
person  in  relation  to  any  railroad  or  other  ticket  or  voucher  for  con- 
veyance which  is  worthless,  or  make  any  false  representation  or 
statement  in  regard  to  any  voucher  or.  ticket  for  conveyance  that 
may  be  shown  to  him,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars 
for  each  and  every  offense. 

§  50.  No  licensed  owner  or  driver  herein  mentioned  shall  refuse 
to  give  his  name  on  request  of  any  person,  or  impose  upon  or  de- 
ceive any  person,  in  any  manner  or  form,  or  strike,  threaten,  insult, 
or  otherwise  abuse  or  ill-treat  any  passenger  under  any  pretense 
whatever,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  for  each  and 
every  offense. 

§  51."  No  owner  or  driver  of  any  licensed  hackney  coach,  cab, 
public  cart  or  other  vehicle,  shall  induce  anybody  to  employ  him,  by 
either  knowingly,  wantonly  or  ignorantly  misinforming  or  mislead- 
ing such  person,  either  as  to  the  time  or  place  of  the  arrival  or  de- 
parture of  any  railroad  car  or  other  public  conveyance  whatever,  or 
the  location  of  any  railroad  depot,  office,  station,  or  any  railroad 
ticket  office,  or  the  location  of  any  hotel,  stage  office,  public  place  or 
private  residence  within  the  said  town,  under  the  penalty  of  ten  dol- 
lars for  each  and  every  offense. 

§52.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  such  licensed  owner  or  driver 
to  induce  any  person  to  ride  in  or  employ  his  vehicle,  by  falsely  rep- 
resenting his  vehicle  to  such  person  as  running  for,  or  being  in  the 
employment  of  a  public  house,  railroad  or  stage  company,  with  a 
view  to  exact,  solicit  or  obtain  fare,  or  anything  of  value  from  such 
person,  or  having  so  induced  any  person  to  ride  in  his  vehicle,  to 
exact,  solicit  or  take  fare  or  anything  of  value  from  such  person,  for 
conveying  him  to  such  public  house,  railroad  depot,  ticket  office, 
stage  company  office,  or  other  public  place,  under  the  penalty  of  not 
less  than  ten  dollars  for  each  and  every  offense. 

§  53.  No  driver,  agent,  servant,  owner  or  owners  of  any  hack- 
ney coach,  cab,  carriage  or  other  vehicle  herein  referred  to,  shall  act 


176  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

as  public  porter  or  runner,  without  a  license  for  that  purpose,  or  solicit 
passengers,  except  for  such  vehicle  as  he  may  be  licensed  for;  and  no 
driver  of  any  hackney  coach,  cab,  omnibus,  wagon,  public  cart,  car- 
riage or  other  vehicle,  shall  engage  in  racing  with  another,  or  drive 
faster  than  a  moderate  trot,  while  passing  in,  along  or  through  any 
of  the  public  streets  in  the  town ;  and  all  such  vehicles  shall  keep  to 
the  right  when  in  motion  and  passing  along  any  of  such  public 
streets. 

§54.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  the  driver  or  other  person  hav- 
ing charge  of  any  hachney  coach,  cab,  public  cart  or  any  other  vehi- 
cle mentioned  in  this  chapter,  to  be  off  or  away  from  any  such  hackney 
coach,  cab,  cart  or  any  other  vehicle  while  the  same  is  moving  or  pass- 
ing along  any  of  the  streets  or  avenues  of  said  town ;  nor  shall  it  be 
lawful  for  any  driver  of  any  vehicle  herein  mentioned,  while  waiting 
for  employment  at  any  place  assigned  for  his  vehicle,  to  stand  wait- 
ing for  employment  at  any  other  place,  or  to  snap  or  flourish  his 
whip,  or  to  be  away  from  his  vehicle  unless  from  necessity  or  on 
business,  or  to  sit  or  stand  about  the  doorsteps  or  platforms,  or  in 
front  of  any  house,  store  or  other  building,  to  the  annoyance  of  the 
•occupants  thereof. 

§  55.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  clause  or  provision  of  any 
section  of  this  chapter,  or  who  shall  neglect  or  fail  to  comply  with 
anv  or  either  of  the  requirements  thereof,  shall,  on  conviction,  except- 
ing as  herein  is  otherwise  provided,  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
five  dollars,  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  and  shall  forfeit  his 
license. 


CHAPTER     XXXI. 


COAL. 

SECTION  i .  In  the  sale  of  coal,  the  hundred  weight  shall  consist 
of  one  hundred  pounds  avoirdupois;  and  twenty  such  hundred 
weight  shall  constitute  a  ton. 

§  2.  Every  person  or  persons  engaged  in.  the  business  of  selling 
coal  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  to  be  delivered  in  said  town,  shall  deliver 
to  the  purchaser  at  the  time  of  the  delivery  of  the  coal  purchased, 
a  certificate,  signed  by  a  town  weigher,  showing  the  weight  of  the 
coal  so  delivered,  and  the  weight  of  the  wagon  or  cart. 


COAL CONCEALED    WEAPONS. 

§  3.  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter, 
or  who  shall  deliver  to  any  purchaser  a  less  quantity  than  two  thou- 
sand pounds  of  coal  for  each  ton  purchased  (or  a  proportionate 
amount  for  any  part  of  a  ton),  or  who  shall  practice  any  fraud  or 
deceit  in  the  sale  or  delivery  of  any  coal  purchased,  to  be  deliv- 
ered in  said  town  as  aforesaid,  shall,  upon  conviction,  be  fined  in  a 
sum  of  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars,  for 
each  offense. 


CHAPTER     XXXII. 


CONCEALED    WEAPONS. 

SECTION  i.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  within  the  limits 
of  the  town  to  carry  or  wear  under  his  clothes,  or  concealed  about 
his  person,  any  pistol,  colt  or  slung  shot,  cross  knuckles,  or  knuckles 
of  lead,  brass  or  other  metal,  or  bowie  knife,  dirk  knife,  or  dirk, 
razor  or  dagger,  or  any  other  dangerous  or  deadly  weapon. 

§  2.  Any  such  weapon  or  weapons  duly  adjudged  by  the  police 
magistrate,  or  any  justice  of  the  peace  of  said  town,  to  have  been 
worn  or  carried  by  any  person,  in  violation  of  the  first  section  of  this 
chapter,  shall  be  forfeited  or  confiscated  to  the  said  Town  of  Lake, 
and  shall  be  so  adjudged. 

§  3.  Any  policeman  of  The  Town  of  Lake  may  within  the  lim- 
its of  said  town  without  a  warrant  arrest  any  person  or  persons 
whom  such  policeman  may  find  in  the  act  of  carrying  or  wearing 
under  their  clothes  or  concealed  about  their  persons,  any  pistol,  or 
colt,  or  slung  shot,  or  cross  knuckles,  or  knuckles  of  lead,  brass  or 
other  metal,  or  bowie  knife,  dirk  knife,  or  dirk,  or  dagger,  or  razor 
or  any  other  dangerous  or  deadly  weapon,  and  detain  him,  her  or 
them  in  the  town  jail  until  a  summons  or  warrant  can  be  procured 
on  complaint  made  (under  oath  or  affirmation)  for  the  trial  of  such 
person  or  persons,  and  for  the  seizure  and  confiscation  of  such  of 
the  weapons  above  referred  to  as  such  person  or  persons  may  be 
found  in  the  act  of  carrying  or  wearing  under  their  clothes,  or  con- 
cealed about  their  persons. 


178  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

i 

§  4.  Upon  complaint  made,  under  oath  or  affirmation,  to  any 
magistrate  or  justice  of  the  peace  in  said  town,  that  any  person  has 
been  guilty  of  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  section  i  of  this 
chapter,  a  summons  or  warrant  shall  issue  for  the  summoning  or 
arrest  of  the  offender  or  offenders,  returnable  forthwith;  upon  the 
return  of  such  summons  or  warrant,  such  magistrate  or  justice  shall 
proceed  to  the  hearing  and  determination  of  the  matter,  and  if  it 
shall  be  adjudged  that  such  person  or  persons  has  or  have  incurred 
any  of  the  penalties  fixed  by  this  chapter,  such  magistrate  or  justice 
of  the  peace  shall  so  adjudge,  and  order  that  the  weapon  or  weapons, 
concerning  the  carrying  or  wearing  of  which  such  penalty  shall  have 
been  incurred,  shall  be  confiscated  to  The  Town  of  Lake. 

§  5.  Any  person  or  persons  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of 
section  i  of  this  chapter  shall  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  dol- 
lars nor  more  than  fifty  dollars,  in  the  discretion  of  the  magistrate 
or  court  before  whom  such  conviction  shall  be  had. 

§  6.  The  prohibitions  of  this  chapter  shall  not  apply  to  the  offi- 
cers or  members  of  the  police  force  of  said  town  when  on  duty,  nor 
to  any  officer  of  any  court  whose  duty  may  be  to  serve  warrants  or 
to  make  arrests;  nor  to  persons  whose  business  or  occupation  may 
seem  to  require  the  carrying  of  weapons  for  their  protection,  and 
who  shall  have  obtained  from  the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees 
a  license  so  to  do,  as  hereinafter  provided. 

§  7.  The  president  may  grant  to  so  many  and  such  persons  as 
he  may  think  proper  licenses  to  carry  concealed  weapons,  and  may 
revoke  any  and  all  of  such  licenses  at  his  pleasure. 

§  8.  Applications  for  such  licenses  shall  be  made  to  the  clerk, 
and  when  granted,  the  person  applying  therefor  shall  pay  to  the 
clerk,  for  the  use  of  the  town,  the  sum  of  two  dollars,  and  thereupon 
a  license  shall  be  issued  by  the  town  clerk,  and  signed  by  the  presi- 
dent. 

§  9.  Every  such  license  shall  state  the  name,  age,  occupation 
and  residence  of  the  person  to  whom  it  is  granted,  and  shall  expire 
on  the  thirtieth  day  of  June  next  following. 


DOGS. 


179 


CHAPTER     XXXIII. 


,     DOGS. 

SECTION  i.  Hereafter,  it  shall  not  be  lawful  to  permit  any  dog 
to  go  abroad  loose,  or  at  large,  in  any  of  the  public  streets,  avenues, 
alleys,  parks,  Or  places  within  the  corporate  limits  of  The  Town  of 
Lake,  under  a  penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each  offense,  to  be  recovered 
against  the  owner,  possessor,  or  person  who  knowingly  harbored 
such  dog  within  three  days  previous  to  the  time  of  such  dog  being  so 
found  going  abroad  loose  or  at  large.  Nothing  in  this  chapter  shall 
prevent  any  such  dog  from  going  into  any  such  street,  avenue,  alley, 
park,  or  other  place,  provided  such  dog  shall  wear  a  good  and  sub- 
stantial wire  or  leathern  muzzle,  securely  fastened  and  put  on,  so  as 
to  prevent  him  from  biting. 

§  2.  Every  owner,  possessor,  or  person  who  harbors  or  keeps 
any  dog  within  the  limits  of  the  town,  shall  annually,  and  within 
thirty  days  after  the  first  day  of  May  in  each  year,  pay  to  the 
town  treasurer  the  sum  of  two  dollars  for  every  male  dog,  and  the 
sum  of  five  dollars  for  every  female  dog,  and  cause  such  dog  to  be 
registered  in  the  office  of  the  town  clerk,  in  a  book  to  be  kept  for 
that  purpose;  and  also  obtain  from  such  clerk  the  metal  tag  herein- 
after required  to  be  furnished  to  said  clerk  by  the  town  treasurer. 

§  3.  The  town  treasurer  shall  provide,  each  and  every  year, 
such  number  of  metal  tags  as  may  be  necessary,  of  such  size  and 
shape  as  he  shall  deem  expedient  (the  shape  to  be  changed  each 
year),  having  stamped  thereon  numbers  indicating  the  year  for  which 
the  tax  is  paid,  and  the  letters  L.  D.  T.,  and  deliver  the  same  to  the 
town  clerk ;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  town  clerk  to  deliver  one 
of  such  metallic  plates  to  the  person  so  paying  a  tax  upon  any  such 
dog. 

§  4.  Every  dog  so  licensed  shall  have  a  collar  around  his 
neck,  with  the  metal  tag  aforesaid  securely  fastened  to  it.  Every 
dog  so  licensed  shall,  when  in  the  street,  be  securely  muzzled  as 
aforesaid;  and  every  dog  or  bitch  that  is  not  so  secured,  although 
he  or  she  is  licensed,  shall  be  captured  the  same  as  if  no  license  was 
granted. 

§  5.     No  dog    licensed    as  aforesaid,  and  having  a  collar  and 
13 


I  SO  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

tag,  that  may  be  un-muzzled,  and  in  a  wagon  or  other  vehicle 
belonging  to  his  owner,  shall  be  captured,  provided  such  dog  be 
securely  fastened  to  such  wagon  or  other  vehicle  by  a  cord,  rope  or 
chain  not  exceeding  five  feet  in  length. 

^  6.  All  dogs  found  loose  or  at  large,  un-muzzled,  whether 
licensed  or  not,  shall  be  seized,  captured,  and  delivered  by  such  per- 
sons as  the  supervisor  shall  designate,  at  a  place  to  be  provided  and 
indicated  by  him,  where  such  animals,  if  not  within  four  days  there- 
after claimed  and  redeemed  by  the  owner,  or  some  other  person, 
shall  be  killed  and  destroyed  in  such  manner  and  by  such  persons 
as  the  supervisor  shall  designate. 

§  7.  The  supervisor  is  hereby  authorized  to  take  such  measures 
as  he  may  deem  most  efficient  to  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of 
this  chapter;  and  if  it  shall  be  found  necessary,  the  supervisor  may 
designate  one  or  more  persons  in  different  divisions  of  the  town,  who 
shall  have  special  police  powers  for  that  purpose. 

^  8.  The  provisions  of  this  chapter,  except  those  relating  to 
muzzling  dogs,  shall  not  apply  to  dogs  owned  by  non-residents,  in 
remaining  temporarily,  or  in  passing  through  this  town. 

§  9.  No  person  shall  hinder  or  molest  any  person  or  persons  so 
appointed  by  the  supervisor  while  engaged  in  seizing  or  capturing 
and  delivering  any  such  dog,  as  aforesaid,  or  any  other  person 
engaged  in  the  performance  of  any  duty  enjoined  by  the  provisions 
of  this  chapter,  under  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than 
one  hundred  dollars  for  every  offense. 

§  10.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  policemen  and  pound-masters  in 
The  Town  of  Lake,  to  take  up  and  impound  in  the  town  pound  in 
which  cattle  are  authorized  to  be  impounded,  if  no  other  place  shall 
have  been  designated,  any  dog  found  in  The  Town  of  .Lake  not  hav- 
ing a  collar  around  its  neck  with  the  metal  tag  aforesaid  attached 
thereto,  or,  having  such  collar  and  tag,  shall  be  without  a  muzzle 
as  aforesaid,  and  if  such  dog  shall  not  be  redeemed,  as  hereinafter 
provided,  within  four  days  after  such  dog  shall  have  been  impounded, 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  pound-keeper  of  the  said  pound  wherein 
such  dog  shall  be  impounded  to  slay  or  cause  the  same  to  be  slain. 

^n.  Every  pound-keeper  or  other  person  designated  by  the  super- 
visor to  enforce  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  is  hereby  authorized 
to  collect  a  fee  of  three  dollars,  as  aforesaid,  upon  every  dog  that 
shall  be  so  impounded,  and  twenty  cents  per  day  for  every  day  such 
dog  shall  be  impounded;  and  he  shall  ke,ep  a  register  of  such  dogs, 


DOGS FIRE.  l8l 

and  shall  account  for  and  pay  into  the  town  treasury  all  moneys 
received  under  this  chapter,  at  the  end  of  each  and  every  week, 
retaining  therefrom  for  his  fee  the  sum  of  fifty  cents  for  each  dog  so 
impounded,  and  he  shall  receive  no  further  or  other  compensation. 

4j  12.  Any  person  or  persons  who  shall  violate,  or  fail,  neglect 
or  refuse  to  comply  with  any  of  the  foregoing  provisions  of  this 
chapter,  where  no  other  penalty  is  prescribed,  shall,  on  conviction,  be 
fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  five  dollars^  nor  more  than  one  hundred 
dollars  for  each  and  every  offense. 

§  13.  On  complaint  being  made  to  the  supervisor,  of  any  dog  or 
bitch  within  the  town  which  shall,  by  barking,  biting,  howling,  or  in 
any  other  way  or  manner  disturb  the  quiet  of  any  person  or  persons 
whomsoever,  the  supervisor,  on  being  satisfied  of  the  truth  of  such 
complaint,  shall  direct  a  police  officer  to  give  notice  thereof  to  the  per- 
son or  persons  keeping  or  permitting  such  dog  or  bitch  to  remain' in 
his  or  her  house,  or  on  his  or  her  premises;  and  in  case  such  person 
or  persons  shall,  for  the  space  of  one  day  after  such  notice,  neglect  to 
cause  such  dog  or  bitch  to  be  destroyed  or  removed,  so  as  to  prevent 
the  disturbance,  he  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  sum  not  less  than  ten  dollars 
for  every  day  which  shall  elapse  until  such  dog  or  bitch  be  removed 
or  destroyed  as  aforesaid. 


CHAPTER     XXXIV. 


FIRE.  i 

SECTION  i.  Whoever,  without  reasonable  cause,  by  outcry  or 
otherwise  makes  or  circulates,  or  causes  to  be  made  or  circulated 
any  false  alarm  of  fire,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
twenty-five  dollars. 

§  2.  'Whoever  is  concerned  in  causing  or  making  a  bonfire, 
or  shall  set  fire  to  or  burn  any  hay,  straw,  shavings  or  other  com- 
bustible materials  in  any  street,  alley  or  public  place  within  the 
limits  of  the  town,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five 
dollars:  Provided,  the  fire  marshal  or  any  assistant  fire  marshal 


1 82  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

or  fire  warden  may,  in  such  cases  as  he  may  deem  proper,  grant 
permits  in  writing  for  the  destruction  of  straw  or  other  rubbish 
where  the  same  can  be  done  without  damage  to  property  or  annoy- 
ance to  the  public,  but  the  same  shall  be  done  after  sundown,  and 
at  least  thirty  feet  from  any  building. 

§  3.  No  person  shall  take  or  use  in  any  barn  or  stable  within 
the  corporate  limits  of  the  town  any  lighted  candle,  oil  or  fluid  lamp, 
or  any  burning  light  of  any  kind  whatsoever,  unless  the  same  be 
enclosed  and  secured  in  a  good  glass,  horn  or  other  lantern,  under 
penalty  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  4.  Every  person  keeping  or  occupying  any  shop  or  other 
building  wherein  shavings  or  other  combustible  materials  are  made, 
accumulated,  or  may  be  contained,  and  situated  within  two  hundred 
feet  of  any  other  building  shall  clear  and  remove  such  shavings  or 
other  combustible  materials  out  of  any  such  building  and  the  yard 
belonging  thereto  at  least  three  times  in  each  week,  under  the  pen- 
alty of  five  dollars  for  each  offense.  Any  person  or  persons  using- 
rags  or  waste  for  rubbing  furniture,  or  other  varnished  or  oiled 
work,  shall  burn  or  cause  to  be  burned  all  such  rags  or  waste  every 
day;  but  if  any  rags  or  waste  so  used  are  not  burned  before  the 
close  of  the  working  day,  such  rags  or  waste  shall  be  immersed  in 
water. 

§  5.  No  stove  shall  be  used  in  any  such  shop  or  building, 
unless  the  same  shall  be  set  in  a  box  surrounded  with  fire-proof 
material,  with  the  pipe  carefully  set  up  according  to  the  provisions  of 
this  chapter;  and  no  lighted  candle  shall  be  used  in  any  such  shop 
or  building  except  it  be  placed  in  a  candlestick  made  of  a  material 
not  liable  to  take  fire,  under  the  penalty  of  two  dollars  for  each 
offense. 

§  6.  No  person  shall  carry  fire  in  or  through  any  street  or 
lot,  or  other  public  or  private  place,  except  the  same  be  placed  or 
covered  in  some  close  or  secure  pan  or  other  vessel,  under  the  pen- 
alty of  one  dollar  for  each  offense. 

§  7.  No  person  in  removing  any  chips,  shavings  or  other  com- 
bustible matter,  shall  scatter  or  throw  them  or  suffer  them  to  be 
thrown  or  scattered  on  any  street,  alley  or  other  public  place,  under 
the  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  8.  No  person  shall  deposit  or  stack  any  hay,  straw  or  other 
combustible  substance  within  one  hundred  feet  of  any  dwelling- 
house,  barn,  stable,  outhouse  or  building  of  any  description  within- 


FIRE FIREARMS,    ETC.  183 

the  limits  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  without  first  having  obtained 
written  permission  from  the  supervisor,  under  the  penalty  of  twenty- 
five  dollars  for  each  offense,  and  a  like  penalty  for  every  week  the 
same  may  remain  after  notice. 

§  9.  No  person  shall  keep  ashes  in  any  barrel,  box  or  other 
wooden  vessel,  or  on  any  wooden  floor  in  any  building,  under  the 
penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each  offense. 


CHAPTER     XXXV. 


FIRE-ARMS,  FIREWORKS    AND   CANNONS. 

SECTION  i.  No  person  shall  fire  or  discharge  any  gun,  pistol, 
fowling-piece  or  other  fire-arm  within  the  corporate  limits  of  The 
Town  of  Lake,  under  the  penalty  of  ten  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  2.  No  person  shall  sell,  loan  or  furnish  to  any  minor,  any 
gun,  pistol,  fowling-piece  or  other  fire-arm  within  the  limits  of  the 
town,  under  the  penalty  of  ten  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  3.  No  person  shall  fire,  discharge  or  set  off  within  the  limits 
of  The  Town  of  Lake,  any  rocket,  cracker,  torpedo,  squib  or  other 
fireworks  or  thing  containing  any  substance  of  an  explosive  nature, 
under  the  penalty  of  ten  dollars  for  each  offense:  Provided,  that 
the  supervisor  may  by  proclamation  permit  the  use  of  fireworks  on 
the  fourth  day  ol  July,  and  on  such  other  day  or  days  as  he  in  his 
discretion  may  deem  proper. 

§  4.  No  squibs,  rockets,  crackers,  serpents  or  other  fireworks 
containing  powder  or  other  combustible  or  explosive  materials  shall 
be  kept  or  stored  within  the  limits  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  except  the 
same  be  kept  or  stored  in  a  fire-proof  vault,  under  the  penalty  of 
not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  each 
offense,  and  a  like  penalty  for  every  twenty-four  hours  that  said 
rockets,  squibs,  crackers  or  other  fireworks  containing  the  aforesaid 
materials  shall  be  kept  or  stored  after  the  first  conviction. 

§  5.     No  cannon  or    piece  of    artillery  shall    be  discharged  or 


184  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

fired  off  in  any  street,  avenue,  alley,  park  or  place  within  the  corpo- 
rate limits  of  the  town  without  a  written  permission  from  the  super- 
visor, under  a  penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  every  offense. 

§  6.  No  person  shall  sell  within  the  limits  of  the  town  any 
rockets,  crackers,  squibs  or  other  fireworks  containing  any  com- 
bustible or  explosive  material,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  ten 
dollars  for  each  offense:  Provided,  that  this  section  shall  not  apply 
to  the  sale  of  imported  fireworks  in  their  original  packages. 

§  7.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  member  of  the  police  force 
to  see  that  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  are  strictly  complied  with 
and  enforced. 


CHAPTER     XXXVI. 


GAMING. 

SECTION  i.  No  person  or  persons  shall  set  up,  keep  or  maintain,. 
or  permit  to  be  set  up,  kept  or  maintained  in  any  house  or  place 
within  the  corporate  limits  occupied  or  controlled  by  him  or  them, 
any  E.  O.,  A.  B.  C.,  rooley-pooley,  keno  or  faro  table,  faro  bank, 
roulette  or  other  instrument,  device  or  thing  for  the  purpose  of  gam- 
ing, or  with  which  money,  liquor  or  anything  of  value  shall  in  any 
manner  be  played  for,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  one  hundred 
dollars  for  each  and  every  offense. 

§  2.  No  person  shall  deal,  play  or  engage  in  faro,  roulette 
or  any  other  device  or  game  of  chance,  hazard  or  address,  either  as 
banker,  dealer,  player  or  otherwise,  for  the  purpose  of  gaming, 
under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  for  each  and  every 
offense. 

§  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  members  of  the  police  force  to  give 
information  to  the  supervisor  of  each  house  or  other  place  within 
the  town  wherein  such  games  or  devices,  or  tables  or  other  instru- 
ments or  things  for  the  purpose  of  gaming,  are  or  may  be  set  up, 
kept,  or  maintained;  and  said  police  officers  shall  take  all  lawful 
means  to  suppress  and  prevent  the  playing  at  the  tables,  games  or 


GAMING.  185 

devices  aforesaid,  and  for  this  purpose,  when  and  as  often  as  any 
one  of  them  shall  have  reasonable  cause  to  suspect  that  any  such 
table,  game  or  device  is  set  up,  kept  or  maintained  as  aforesaid,  he 
shall  forthwith  make  complaint  thereof  before  some  justice  of  the 
peace,  and  obtain  a  warrant  authorizing  him  to  enter  such  house, 
houses  or  place  or  any  room  within  the  same;  and  said  police  offi- 
cer shall  thereupon  have  authority  to  demand  entry  therein,  and  any 
person  or  persons  who  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  open  the  door  or 
entrance  to  such  house,  houses,  or  place,  or  any  room  within  the 
same,  upon  application  of  any  police  officer  having  such  warrant, 
shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars  for 
each  and  every  offense. 

§  4.  No  person  shall  bring  into  The  Town  of  Lake,  or  have  in 
his,  her  or  their  possession  in  the  said  town,  for  the  purpose  of 
gaming,  any  table,  thing  or  device  of  any  kind  or  nature,  whereon, 
or  with  which,  money  or  any  other  thing  of  value  may  in  any  man- 
ner be  played  for,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  twenty-five 
dollars  for  each  and  every  offense. 

§  5.  No  person  shall  expose  in  any  of  the  streets,  avenues,  or 
other  public  places  within  the  limits  of  the  town,  any  table  or  device 
of  any  kind  whatever,  upon  or  by  which  any  game  of  chance  or 
hazard  can  be  played,  or  shall  play  at,  or  upon  any  such  table  or 
device,  under  the  penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  6.  Any  person  who  is  a  frequenter,  visitor,  inmate,  door- 
keeper, solicitor,  runner,  agent,  abettor  or  pimp,  of  or  for  any  house, 
store,  grocery,  hall,  room,  or  any  other  place  where  are  kept  any 
E.  O.  tables,  keno  table,  faro  bank,  shuffle  board,  bagatelle,  playing 
cards,  pigeon-holes,  or  any  other  instrument,  device  or  thing  used 
for  gambling,  whereon  or  with  which  money,  liquor  or  other  articles 
shall  be  played  for,  shall,  upon  conviction,  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less 
than  five  dollars,  and  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

§  7.  It  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  every  member  of  the  police 
force  to  seize  any  table,  instrument,  device  or  thing  used  for  the  pur- 
pose of  gaming;  and  all  such  tables,  instruments,  devices  or  things 
shall  be  destroyed.  Any  person  or  persons  obstructing  or  resisting 
any  member  of  the  police  force,  in  the  performance  of  any  act 
authorized  by  this  section,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
fifty  dollars  for  each  offense. 


l86  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 


CHAPTER     XXXVII. 


GAS  COMPANIES. 

SECTION  i.  Any  company  putting  in  gas  pipes  shall  be  required 
to  lay  their  street  mains  at  a  distance  of  not  less  than  ten  feet  from  the 
center  of  the  street  in  said  town,  and  on  the  north  or  east,  or  north- 
erly or  easterly  sides  of  streets ;  and  in  all  cases  so  that  they  will  not 
interfere  with  sewers  or  water  pipes;  and  according  to  any  resolu- 
tion of  the  board  of  trustees.  In  case  water  pipes  or  sewers  are 
laid  in  any  street  so  that  a  compliance  with  the  above  will  cause  gas 
pipes  to  be  placed  on  the  same  side  of  the  street  or  avenue  as  the 
water  pipes  or  sewers,  then  in  such  case  the  gas  companies  shall 
obtain  special  permission  as  to  the  location  of  said  gas  pipes. 

§  2.  Every  gas  company  that  shall  lay  down  gas  pipes  in  any 
street  or  alley  in  said  town,  shall  make  and  keep  on  file  at  the  town 
hall  an  accurate  map,  showing  the  exact  location  and  depth  of  every 
line  of  pipe  and  connections  laid  by  them,  and  of  every  lamp  post  in 
the  town,  which  map  shall  at  all  times  be  accessible  for  public 
inspection. 

§  3.  No  gas  company  shall  make  any  excavations  for  the  pur- 
pose of  laying  down  pipes  in  the  carriage  way,  or  any  traveled  por- 
tion of  any  street  in  said  town,  other  than  as  provided  in  this  ordi- 
nance, except  for  necessary  crossings. 

§  4.  Every  gas  company  in  said  town  shall  conform  to  all  ordi- 
nances of  said  town  and  all  orders  and  resolutions  of  the  board  of 
trustees. 


CHAPTER    XXXVIII. 


GUNPOWDER   AND   EXPLOSIVES. 

SECTION  i.  No  person  shall  keep,  sell  or  give  away  any  gun- 
powder, or  other  explosive  material,  in  any  quantity,  without  per- 
mission in  writing,  signed  by  the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees 
and  town  clerk,  and  sealed  with  the  corporate  seal,  under  a  penalty 
of  twenty-five  dollars  for  every  offense:  Provided,  any  person 


GUNPOWDER    AND    EXPLOSIVES.  187 

may  keep  for  his  own  use  a  quantity  of  gunpowder  not  exceeding  one 
pound.  All  applications  for  such  permits  shall  be  made  to  the 
clerk,  and  no  more  than  four  shall  be  granted  in  any  block. 

§  2.  The  town  clerk  shall  make  an  entry  thereof  in  a  register 
to  be  provided  for  that  purpose,  which  .entry  shall  state  the  name 
and  place  of  business  and  date  of  permit. 

§  3.  No  person  shall  sell  or  weigh  any  gunpowder  or  other 
evplosive  material  after  the  lighting  of  lamps  in  the  evening,  un- 
less in  sealed  canisters  or  cases. 

§  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  to  whom  a  permit 
shall  be  given  to  keep  a  sign  at  the  front  door  of  his  place  of  busi- 
ness with  the  word  "  gunpowder "  painted  or  printed  thereon  in 
large  letters. 

§  5.  No  person,  firm  or  corporation  shall  have  or  keep  at  his, 
their  or  its  place  of  business,  or  elsewhere  within  the  town,  a  greater 
quantity  of  gunpowder  than  fifty  pounds  at  one  time,  and  the  same 
shall  then  be  kept  in  tin  canisters  or  cases,  containing  not  to  ex- 
ceed thirty  pounds  each,  and  in  a  situation  remote  from  fires, 
lighted  lamps,  candles,  gas  or  other  inflammable  matter,  from 
which  the  same  may  be  easily  removed  in  case  of  fire,  and  then  only 
by  first  obtaining  a  permit  as  herein  required. 

§  6.  No  powder  magazine  or  place  for  storing  or  keeping  gun- 
powder or  other  explosive  material  shall  be  kept  or  maintained 
within  the  town:  Provided,  however,  the  provisions  of  this  section 
shall  not  be  held  or  construed  to  apply  to  any  powder  magazine  or 
place  now  used  or  that  may  be  hereafter  erected  and  used  for 
storing  gunpowder  or  other  explosive  material  within  the  town, 
which  is  now  or  may  hereafter  be  located  on  any  lot,  piece  or 
parcel  of  land,  the  size  or  area  of  which  is  such  that  the  boundaries 
thereof  are  not  less  than  twenty  rods  distant  from  the  walls  of  any 
such  magazine  or  place,  and  the  title  to  which  said  lot,  piece  or  par- 
cel of  land,  together  with  all  the  improvements  thereon,  by  purchase 
or  lease,  is  vested  in  the  person,  firm  or  corporation  owning  any 
such  magazine  or  place  now  or  that  may  be  hereafter  used  for  the 
storage  of  gunpowder  or  other  explosive  material,  as  aforesaid. 

§  7.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons  to  carry  or 
convey  any  gunpowder  (exceeding  fifty  pounds  in  quantity)  through 
any  street,  alley,  highway  or  road  in  the  town,  in  any  cart,  car- 
riage, wagon,  dray  or  wheelbarrow,  or  otherwise,  unless  the  said 
gunpowder  be  secured  in  tight  cases  or  kegs  well  headed  and 


1 88  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

hooped,  or  put  into  and  entirely  covered  with  a  good,  tight  and  sub- 
stantial leather  bag  sufficient  to  prevent  the  same  from  being 
spilled  or  scattered,  or  unless  the  same  is  put  into  a  well  covered 
and  perfectly  water-tight  box,  the  bottom  and  sides  of  which  shall 
be  completely  covered  with  zinc;  or  unless  such  gunpowder  be  se- 
cured in  water-tight  patent  metallic  cases  or  kegs. 

§  8.  All  gunpowder  or  other  explosive  material  coming  into- 
the  town  in  greater  quantities  than  fifty  pounds,  shall,  within  twentv- 
four  hours  after  its  arrival,  be  transported  and  conveyed  beyond  the 
town  limits:  Provided,  however,  that  powder  may  be  conveyed  to 
and  stored  in  the  magazines  which  are  embraced  in  the  exceptions 
made  in  section  6:  And  -provided,  further,  that  in  case  of  the 
receipt  in,  or  shipment  from,  said  town,  of  powder  in  quantities 
exceeding  one  hundred  kegs  in  one  lot,  the  superintendent  of  police 
or  fire  marshal  may,  on  a  proper  case  made,  grant  special  permit,  in 
writing,  extending  said  time  not  exceeding  forty-eight  hours. 

§  9.  No  gunpowder  or  other  explosive  material  shipped  to  or  from 
The  Town  of  Lake  shall  be  permitted  or  suffered  to  be  or  remain  on 
any  street,  alley,  highway,  railroad  track  or  car,  or  other  place  within 
said  town,  in  a  greater  quantity  than  fifty  pounds,  except  as  herein 
otherwise  provided,  for  a  longer  period  than  a  reasonable  time  to  load 
and  unload  the  same,  which  time,  however,  shall  not  exceed  twelve 
hours:  Provided,  however,  the  superintendent  of  police  or  fire 
marshal  may,  by  permit  in  writing,  extend  said  time  not  exceeding 
twenty-four  hours. 

§  10.  No  wagon,  dray,  cart,  or  other  vehicle  loaded,  in  whole  or 
in  part,  with  gunpowder  or  other  explosive  material,  shall  be  per- 
mitted to  stand  or  remain  on  any  street,  alley,  highway,  or  place 
in  said  town,  more  than  half  an  hour  at  a  time,  except  when  una- 
voidably detained;  and  every  magazine,  safe,  box,  or  keg,  used  for 
storing  or  transporting,  and  all  vehicles  employed  in  hauling  gun- 
powder or  other  explosive  material  within  the  town,  shall  have 
the  word  "  powder  "  painted  upon  both  sides  of  them  in  large 
letters. 

§  ii.  Any  person  or  persons,  corporation  or  corporations,  vio- 
lating any  of  the  provisions  of  sections  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9  and  10  of 
this  chapter  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars, 
and  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars,  for  each  and  everv  offense; 
and  each  and  every  day  that  gunpowder  or  other  explosive  material 
shall  be  kept  in  any  place  contrary  to  any  provision  of  this  chap- 
ter, shall  constitute  a  violation  thereof. 


GUNPOWDER    AND    EXPLOSIVES.  189- 

§12.  All  permits  granted  under  this  chapter  shall  expire  on  the 
last  day  of  June  in  each  year.  No  permit  shall  be  granted  to  any 
retailer  of  intoxicating  liquors,  or  to  any  intemperate  person.  The 
treasurer  shall  receive  for  the  use  of  the  town,  five  dollars  for  each 
and  every  permit  which  may  be  issued. 

§13.  All  gunpowder  or  other  explosive  material  which  shall  be 
found  in  any  store,  storehouse,  manufactory,  or  other  building,  or 
which  may  be  found  in  any  cart,  wagon,  or  other  vehicle,  in  viola- 
tion of  any  provision  of  this  chapter,  shall  be  immediately  seized 
and  removed  to  some  secure  place,  and  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty 
of  the  members  of  the  police  force  to  assist  in  said  seizure  when 
called  upon. 

§14.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  or  persons,  to  manu- 
facture within  the  limits  of  the  town,  any  explosive  material  or  comi- 
pound,  to  be  used  for  any  purpose,  the  manufacture  of  which  would 
be  dangerous  to  life  and  property,-  under  the  penalty  of  one  hundred 
dollars,  and  a  further  penalty  of  fifty  dollars  for  each  and  every  day 
that  such  explosive  material  or  compound  may  be  manufactured 
after  written  notification  for  discontinuance  thereof  by  the  supervisor. 

§  15.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  to  store  or  keep  in  any  building  or 
other  place  within  the  corporate  limits,  or  convey  through  any  street, 
avenue,  alley  or  other  public  place,  any  dynamite,  nitro-glyceriner 
or  any  other  explosive  material  or  compound  other  than  gunpowder,. 
unless  a  permit,  in  writing,  for  such  purpose  be  first  obtained  from 
the  supervisor,  under  the  penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  each 
and  every  offense,  and  a  further  penalty  of  ten  dollars  for  each  and 
every  day  that  such  explosive  material  or  compound  may  remain- 
stored,  kept,  deposited  or  conveyed,  as  the  case  may  be. 


§  1  6.  In  all  buildings  in  which  any  explosive  material  or 
pound,  as  regulated  by  the  preceding  section,  is  stored  or  kept, 
under  a  permit  obtained  from  the  supervisor,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  person  or  persons  so  storing  it,  to  place  a  tin  sign  on  the  door, 
or  some  other  conspicuous  place  on  the  outside  of  the  first  story  of 
such  building,  on  which  shall  be  painted  in  legible  letters,  the  name 
of  the  compound  or  material  so  kept  or  stored,  under  the  penalty  of 
ten  dollars,  and  a  further  penalty  of  ten  dollars  for  each  and  every 
day  after  written  notification  from  any  police  officer  to  comply  with 
the  provisions  of  this  section. 


ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 


CHAPTER     XXXIX. 


HAY, 

SECTION  i.  No  person,  except  a  town  weigher,  duly  appointed 
and  qualified,  shall  erect  or  have  any  scales  or  apparatus  for  weigh- 
ing hay  on  any  street,  avenue  or  public  place  in  The  Town  of  Lake, 
under  the  penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars. 

§  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  town  weighers,  severally,  to 
provide  themselves  with  proper  scales,  and  well  and  truly  to  weigh 
any  cart,  wagon  or  sled  load  of  hay  when  applied  to  by  any  person 
desiring  the  same,  and  to  make-such  reduction  from  the  weight  of 
such  hay  as  to  them  may  seem  reasonable  and  just  by  reason  of 
said  hay  being  damp,  wet  or  not  well  cured,  and  deliver  to  the  person 
so  applying  a  certificate  thereof,  for  which  the  said  weighers  may 
demand  and  receive  the  sum  of  ten  cents  from  the  person  hav- 
ing the  same  weighed. 

§  3.  No  person  shall  offer  for  sale  or  sell  any  load  of  hay  within 
the  limits  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  without  the  same  having  first  been 
weighed  by  a  town  weigher,  and  a  certificate  thereof  in  conformity 
herewith,  given. 

§  4.  All  hay  sold  or  offered  for  sale  by  the  bale,  shall  first  be 
weighed  by  a  town  weigher,  and  the  amount  of  the  weight  of  said 
bale  or  bales  shall  be  stamped  or  marked  with  the  name  of  the 
person  so  selling  the  same  on  such  bale;  and  if  the  exact  gross  or 
net  weight  of  every  such  bale  of  hay  so  sold  or  offered  for  sale 
.shall  not  be  legibly  and  distinctly  marked  or  stamped  thereon,  the 
person  so  selling  or  offering  the  same  for  sale  shall  be  deemed  guilty 
•of  violating  this  chapter. 

§  5.  Previous  to  the  sale  of  any  load  of  hay,  the  seller  shall 
exhibit  to  the  proposed  purchaser  the  weigher's  certificate  men- 
tioned in  section  3,  and  upon  the  sale  of  each  load  the  seller  shall 
deliver  to  the  purchaser  the  said  certificate. 

§  6.  At  the  request  of  any  purchaser,  every  load  or  bale  of 
hay  so  offered  for  sale  shall  be  re-weighed,  and  the  expense  of  re- 
weighing  shall  be  paid  by  the  purchaser  if  the  weight  be  found  cor- 


HAY HEALTH.  19! 

rect,  but  if  found  incorrect  the  expense  of  weighing  such  load  or 
bale  of  hay  shall  be  paid  by  the  seller. 

§  7.  Any  person  who  shall  offend  against  or  violate  any  of  the 
proyisions  of  this  chapter,  when  no  other  or  different  penalty  is  pro- 
vided, shall  be  fined  on  conviction  in  any  sum  not  exceeding  one 
hundred  dollars. 


CHAPTER     XL. 


HEALTH. 

SECTION  i.  No  person  shall  hereafter  erect,  or  cause  to  be 
erected,  or  converted  to  a  new  purpose  by  alteration,  any  building  or 
structure  which,  or  any  part  of  which,  shall  be  inadequate  or  defective 
in  respect  to  ventilation,  light,  sewerage  or  any  of  the  usual,  proper 
or  necessary  provisions  or  precautions  for  the  preservation  of  health, 
nor  shall  the  builder,  lessee,  tenant  or  occupant  of  any  such,  or  of 
any  other  building  or  structure  (having  the  right  or  ability  to  rem- 
edy or  prevent  the  same),  cause  or  allow  any  matter  or  thing  to  be 
or  to  be  done  in  or  about  any  such  building  or  structure  dangerous 
or  prejudicial  to  health. 

.  §  2.  No  owner,  agent,  or  lessee  of  any  building,  or  any  part 
thereof,  shall  lease  or  let,  or  hire  out  the  same,  or  any  portion  thereof, 
to  be  occupied  by  any  person,  or  allow  the  same  to  be  occupied  by 
any  person,  or  allow  the  same  to  be  occupied  as  a  place  in  which 
any  one  may  dwell  or  lodge,  except  when  said  buildings  or  such 
parts  thereof  are  sufficiently  lighted,  ventilated,  provided  and  accom- 
modated, and  in  all  respects  in  that  condition  of  cleanliness  and  whole- 
someness  for  which  this  ordinance  or  any  law  of  this  state  provides, 
or  in  which  they,  or  either  of  them  require  any  such  premises  to  be 
kept. 

§  3.  No  person,  being  the  owner,  proprietor,  lessee,  manager, 
or  superintendent  of  any  store,  factory,  workshop,  or  other  struc- 
ture or  place  of  employment,  where  workmen  and  workwomen 
are  employed  for  wages,  shall  cause,  permit  or  allow  the  same,  or 
any  portion,  or  apartment  of,  or  any  room  in  said  store,  factory,. 


jp2  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

workshop,  or  other  structure  or  place  of  employment,  to  be  over- 
crowded or  inadequate,  faulty  or  insufficient  in  respect  of  ventilation 
and  cleanliness;  and  in  every  such  building,  or  apartment,  or  room 
in  any  such  building,  where  one  or  more  persons  are  employed  as 
aforesaid,  at  least  five  hundred  cubic  feet  of  air  space  shall  be 
allowed  to  each  and  every  person  employed  therein,  and  the  air 
changed  or  renewed  by  ventilation  at  least  once  in  every  twenty 
minutes,  during  the  hours  of  employment. 

§  4.  All  such  places  of  employment  or  service  shall  be  kept  in 
cleanly  condition,  free  from  the  effluvia  of  a  sewer,  drain,  privy,  stable, 
or  other  nuisance ;  also,  as  far  as  practicable,  from  all  gases,  vapors, 
dust,  or  other  impurities,  generated  by  manufacturing  processes  or 
otherwise,  and  injurious  to  health.  Sufficient  and  separate  privies 
.and  urinals  shall  be  provided  for  male  and  female  employes,  and 
uch  privies  shall  be  ventilated. 

&  =;.     The  health  commissioner  shall  visit,  or  cause  to  be  visited 

O      M 

by  an  officer,  all  such  places  of  employment  or  service  within  the 
town,  at  least  once  a  month,  to  see  that  the  provisions  of  this  chap- 
ter are  complied  with,  and  shall  have  such  arrangements  made  as 
may  be  deemed  necessary  for  the  safety  and  health  of  the  employes, 
pursuant  to  the  terms  of  this  chapter,  and  such  laws  as  may  be  in 
.force  concerning  health  and  sanitary  measures. 

§  6.  The  health  commissioner  shall,  annually,  during  the  first 
quarter  of  each  and  every  fiscal  year,  place  full  and  detailed  sta- 
tistical reports  of  the  work  of  the  inspectors  before  the  board  of 
trustees.  The  reports  shall  specify  the  following: 

(1)  Number  of  males  and  females,  of  all  ages,  employed;  also, 
number  of  boys  and  girls  under  fifteen  years  of  age  employed. 

(2)  The  number  of  violations  of  this  chapter,  and  the  number  of 
abatements,  with  detailed  accounts  of  improvements  effected. 

(3)  General  and   special  sanitary  condition  of  all  people  in  labor 
or  service  in   factories,  workshops,  stores,  warehouses,  elevators, 
yards,  and  domestic  workrooms. 

(4)  Number  and  kind  of  dangerous  and  unhealthy  employments, 
and  diseases  of  the  several  trades  and  occupations. 

Such  reports  shall  be  printed  as  public  documents,  for  the  infor- 
mation of  the  people. 

§  7.  No  owner,  lessee  or  keeper  of  any  tenement-house,  lodg 
ing-house,  boarding-house  or  manufactory  shall  cause  or  allow  the 
.same  to  be  over-crowded,  or  cause  or  allow  so  great  a  number 


HKALTH.  193 

of  persons  to  dwell,  be  or  sleep  in  any  such  house,  or  any  portion 
thereof,  as  thereby  to  cause  any  danger  or  detriment  to  health. 

§  8.  Every  person  who  shall  be  the  owner,  lessee  or  keeper 
or  manager  of  any  tenement-house,  boarding-house,  lodging-house 
•or  manufactory,  shall  provide,  or  cause  to  be  provided  for  the 
accommodation  thereof,  and  for  the  use  of  the  tenants,  lodgers,  boarders 
and  workers  thereat,  adequate  privies  or  water-closets,  and  the  same 
shall  be  so  adequately  ventilated,  and  shall  at  all  times  be  kept  in 
such  cleanly  and  wholesome  condition  as  not  to  be  offensive,  or  be 
dangerous  or  detrimental  to  health.  And  no  offensive  smell  or  gases, 
from  or  through  any  outlet  or  sewer,  or  through  any  such  privy  or 
water-closet,  shall  be  allowed,  by  any  person,  aforesaid,  to  pass  into 
such  house,  or  any  part  thereof,  or  into  any  other  house  or  building. 

§  9.  Every  owner,  lessee  and  tenant,  and  manager  of  •  any 
boarding-house  or  manufactory,  shall  cause  every  part  thereof  and 
its  appurtenances  to  be  put,  and  shall  thereafter  cause  the  same  to  be 
kept,  in  a  clean  and  wholesome  condition,  and  shall  speedily  cause 
every  department  thereof  in  which  any  person  may  sleep,  dwell  or 
work,  to  be  adequately  lighted  and  ventilated;  and  if  the  same  be  a 
manufactory,  shall  cause  every  part  thereof  in  which  any  person  may 
work,  to  be  maintained  at  such  temperature,  and  be  provided  with 
such  accommodations  and  safeguards  as  not,  by  any  reason  of  the 
want  thereof,  or  of  anything  about  the  condition  of  any  such  manu- 
factory or  its  appurtenances,  to  cause  unnecessary  danger  or  detri- 
ment to  the  health  of  any  person  being  properly  therein  or  thereat. 

§  10.  No  person  having  the  right  and  power  to  prevent  the 
same,  shall  knowingly  cause  or  permit  any  person  to  sleep  or 
remain  in  any  cellar,  or  in  any  place  dangerous  or  prejudicial  to  health, 
by  reason  of  a  want  of  ventilation  or  drainage,  or  by  reason  of  the 
presence  of  any  poisonous,  noxious  or  offensive  substance,  or  other- 
wise. 

§n.  No  person  having  the  right  and  power  to  prevent  the 
same,  shall  knowingly  cause  or  permit  any  child  under  fifteen  years- 
of  age,  to  be  employed  at  night  in  any  place  where  machinery  is 
used,  or  more  than  eight  hours  in  any  day,  at  any  trade  or  employ- 
ment, and  then,  only,  between  the  hours  of  seven  o'clock  A.  M.  and 
six  o'clock  P.  M. 

§12.  Every  house,  building  or  portion  thereof,  in  The  Town 
of  Lake,  designed  to  be  used,  occupied,  leased  or  rented,  or  which 
is  used,  occupied,  leased  or  rented  for  a  tenement  or  lodging-house, 
shall  have  in  every  room  which  is  occupied  as  a  sleeping  room,  and 


1 94  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

which  does  not  communicate  directly  with  the  external  air,  a  venti- 
lating or  transom  window,  having  an  opening  or  area  of  three  square 
feet,  over  the  door  leading  into  and  connected  with  the  adjoining 
room,  if  such  adjoining  room  communicates  with  the  external  air, 
and  also  a  ventilating  or  transom  window  of  the  same  opening  or 
area,  communicating  with  the  entry  or  hall  of  the  house,  or  where 
this  is,  from  the  relative  situation  of  the  rooms,  impracticable,  such 
last  mentioned  ventilating  or  transom  window  shall  communicate  with 
an  adjoining  room  that  itself  communicates  with  the  entry  or  hall. 
Every  such  house  or  building  shall  have  in  the  roof,  at  the  top  of 
the  hall,  an  adequate  and  proper  ventilator,  of  a  form  approved  by  the 
commissioner  of  buildings. 

§  13.  The  roof  of  every  house  shall  be  kept  in  good  repair,  and 
so  as  not  to  leak,  and  all  rain  water  shall  be  so  drained  or  conveyed 
therefrom  as  to  prevent  its  dripping  on  the  ground,  or  causing  damp- 
ness in  the  walls,  yard,  or  area. 

§  14.  Every  such  building  shall  be  provided  with  good  and 
sufficient  water-closets  or  privies,  and  shall  have  proper  doors,  traps, 
soil-pans  and  other  suitable  works  and  arrangements,  so  far  as  may 
be  necessary  to  ensure  the  efficient  operation  thereof. 

§  15.  Such  water-closets  or  privies  shall  not  be  less  in  number 
than  one  to  every  twenty  occupants  of  said  house;  but  water-closets 
or  privies  may  be  used  in  com.non  by  the  occupants  of  any  two  or 
more  houses,  provided  the  access  is  convenient  and  direct,  and  pro- 
vided the  number  of  occupants  of  the  houses  for  which  they  are 
provided  shall  not  exceed  the  proportion  above  required  for  every 
privy  or  water-closet. 

8  1 6.  Every  house  situated  upon  a  lot  or  street  in  which  there 
is  a  sewer,  shall  have  the  sinks,  stationary  and  bath  tubs,  water-closets 
or  privies  furnished  with  a  proper  connection  with  the  sewer,  which 
connection  shall  be  in  all  parts  adequate  for  the  purpose,  so  as  to 
permit  entirely  and  freely  to  pass  whatever  enters  the  same. 

§  17.  All  such  water-closets  and  vaults  shall  be  provided  with 
the  proper  traps,  and  connected  with  the  house  sewer  by  a  proper 
tight  pipe,  and  shall  be  provided  with  sufficient  water  and  other 
proper  means  for  Hushing  the  same;  and  every  owner,  lessee  and 
occupant  shall  take  adequate  measures  to  prevent  improper  sub- 
stances from  entering  such  water-closets  or  privies  or  their  connec- 
tions, and  to  secure  the  prompt  remDval  of  any  improper  substances 
that  may  enter  them,  so  that  no  accumulation  shall  take  place,  and 
so  as  to  prevent  any  exhalation  therefrom,  offensive,  dangerous  or 


HEALTH.  195 

prejudicial  to  health,  and  so  as  to  prevent  the  same  from  being  or 
becoming  obstructed. 

§  1 8.  Where  no  sewer  exists  in  the  street,  the  yard  or  area 
shall  be  so  graded  that  all  water,  from  the  roof  or  otherwise,  and  all 
filth  shall  flow  freely  from  it,  and  all  parts  of  it,  into  the  street  gutter, 
by  a  passage  beneath  the  sidewalk,  which  shall  be  covered  by  a 
permanent  cover,  but  so  arranged  as  to  permit  access  to  remove 
obstructions  or  impurities. 

^19.  Every  tenement  or  lodging-house  shall  have  the  proper 
and  suitable  conveniences  or  receptacles  for  receiving  garbage  and 
other  refuse  matter.  No  tenement  or  lodging-house,  nor  any  por- 
tion thereof,  shall  be  used  as  a  place  of  storage  for  any  combustible 
article,  or  any  article  dangerous  or  detrimental  to  health;  nor  shall 
any  horse,  cow,  calf,  swine,  pig,  sheep  or  goat  be  kept  in  said  house. 

§  20.  Every  tenement  or  lodging-house,  and  every  part  thereof 
shall  be  kept  clean  and  free  from  any  accumulation  of  dirt,  filth,  gar- 
bage or  other  matter  in  or  on  the  same,  or  in  the  yard,  court,  pas- 
sage, area  or  alley  connected  with  or  belonging  to  the  same.  The 
owner  or  keeper  of  any  lodging-house,  and  the  owner  or  lessee  of 
any  tenement  house  or  part  thereof,  shall  thoroughly  cleanse  all  the 
rooms,  passages,  stairs,  floors,  windows,  doors,  walls,  ceilings,  privies, 
cesspools  and  drains  thereof  of  the  house  or  part  of  the  house  of  which 
he  is  the  owner  or  lessee,  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  commissioner  of 
health,  so  often  as  shall  be  required  by  or  in  accordance  with  any 
regulation  or  order  of  said  commissioner,  and  shall  well  and 
sufficiently,  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  said  commissioner,  whitewash 
the  walls  and  ceilings  thereof  twice  at  least  in  every  year,  and  in  the 
months  of  April  and  October,  unless  the  said  commissioner  shall 
otherwise  direct. 

§  21.  The  owner  or  keeper  of  any  lodging-house,  and  the 
owner,  agent  of  the  owner,  and  the  lessee  of  any  tenement  house 
or  part  thereof,  shall  whenever  any  person  in  such  house  is  sick  of 
fever  or  of  any  infectious,  pestilential  or  contagious  disease,  and 
such  sickness  is  known  to  such  owner,  keeper,  agent  or  lessee,  give 
immediate  notice  thereof  to  the  department  of  health  or  to  some 
officer  of  the  same,  and  thereupon  said  officer  shall  cause  the  same  to 
be  inspected,  and  may  if  found  necessary  cause  the  same  to  be  im- 
mediately cleansed  or  disinfected  at  the  expense  of  the  owner  in  such 
manner  as  he  may  deem  necessary  and  effectual;  and  he  may  also 
cause  the  blankets,  bedding  and  bed  clothes  used  by  any  such 
sick  person  to  be  thoroughly  cleansed,  scoured  and  fumigated,  or 
in  extreme  cases  to  be  destroyed. 
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196  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

§  22.  Whenever  it  shall  be  decided  by  the  health  commis- 
sioner that  any  building  or  part  thereof  is  unfit  for  human  habita- 
tion by  reason  of  its  being  so  infected  with  disease,  or  from  other 
causes,  as  to  be  likely  to  cause  sickness  among  the  occupants,  and 
notice  of  such  decision  shall  have  been  affixed  conspicuously  on  th6 
building  or  part  thereof  so  decided  to  be  unfit  for  human  habitation, 
and  personally  served  upon  the  owner,  agent  or  lessee,  if  the  same 
can  be  found  in  the  state,  requiring  all  persons  therein  to  vacate  such 
building  or  part  thereof  for  the  reasons  to  be  stated  therein  as  afore- 
said, such  building  or  part  thereof  shall  within  ten  days  thereafter 
be  vacated,  or  within  such  shorter  time,  not  less  than  twenty-four 
hours,  as  in  said  notice  may  be  specified. 

§  23.  No  house  hereafter  erected  shall  be  used  as  a  tenement 
house  or  lodging  house,  and  no  house  heretofore  erected  and  not 
now  used  for  such  purpose,  shall  be  converted  into,  used  or  leased 
for  a  tenement  or  lodging  house,  unless  in  addition  to  the  require- 
ments hereinbefore  contained  it  conforms  to  requirements  contained 
in  the  following  sections. 

§  24.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  hereafter  to  erect  for,  or  convert  to  the 
purposes  of  a  tenement  or  lodging-house,  a  building  on  the  front  of  any 
lot  where  there  is  another  building  on  the  rear  of  the  same  lot, 
unless  there  is  a  clear  open  space  exclusively  belonging  thereto,  and 
extending  upwards  from  the  ground,  of  at  least  ten  feet  between  said 
buildings,  if  they  are  one  story  high  above  the  level  of  the  ground; 
if  they  are  two  stories  high,  the  distance  between  them  shall  not  be 
less  than  fifteen  feet;  if  they  are  three  stories  high,  the  distance 
between  them  shall  be  twenty  feet;  and  if  they  are  more  than  three 
stories  high,  the  distance  between  them  shall  be  twenty-five  feet. 
At  the  rear  of  every  building  hereafter  erected  for  or  converted  to 
the  purposes  of  a  tenement  or  lodging-house  on  back  part  of  any  lot, 
there  shall  be  a  clear,  open  space  of  ten  feet  between  it  and  any 
other  building.  But  when  thorough  ventilation  of  such  open  spaces 
can  be  otherwise  secured,  said  distances  mav  -be  lessened  or  modi- 
fied. 

§  25.  In  every  such  house  hereafter  erected  or  converted,  every 
habitable  room,  except  rooms  in  the  attic,  shall  be  in  every  part  not 
less  than  eight  feet  in  height  from  the  floor  to  the  ceiling ;  and  every 
habitable  room  in  the  attic  of  any  such  building  shall  be  at  least 
eight  feet  in  height  from  the  floor  to  the  ceiling,  throughout  not  less 
than  one  half  the  area  of  such  room.  Every  such  room  shall  have 
at  least  one  window  connecting  with  the  external  air,  or  over  the 
door  a  ventilator  of  perfect  construction,  connecting  it  with  a  room 
or  hall  which  has  a  connection  with  the  external  air,  and  so  arranged 


HEALTH.  197 

as  to  produce  a  cross  current  of  air.  The  total  area  of  window  or 
windows  in  every  room  communicating  with  the  external  air,  shall 
be  at  least  one-tenth  of  the  superficial  area  of  every  such  room;  and 
the  top  of  one  at  least  of  such  windows  shall  not  be  less  than  seven 
feet  and  six  inches  above  the  floor,  and  the  upper  half  at  least  shall 
be  made  so  as  to  open  the  full  width.  Every  habitable  room  of  a 
Jess  area  than  one  hundred  superficial  feet,  if  it  does  not  communi- 
cate directly  with  the  external  air,  and  is  without  an  open  fire-place, 
shall  be  provided  with  special  means  of  ventilation  by  a  separate  air- 
shaft  extending  to  the  roof,  or  otherwise. 

§  26.  Every  such  house  hereafter  erected  or  converted  shall 
have  adequate  chimneys  running  through  every  floor,  with  an  open 
fire-place  or  grate,  or  place  for  stove,  properly  connected  with  one 
of  said  chimneys,  for  every  family  and  set  of  apartments;  it  shall 
have  proper  conveniences  and  receptacles  for  ashes  and  rubbish;  it 
shall  have  water  furnished  at  one  or  more  places  in  such  house  or 
in  the  yard  thereof,  so  that  the  same  may  be  adequate  an  d  reason- 
ably convenient  for  the  use  of  the  occupants  thereof;  it  shall  have 
the  floor  of  the  cellar  properly  cemented  so  as  to  be  water-tight; 
the  halls  of  each  floor  shall  open  directly  to  the  external  air,  with 
suitable  windows,  and  shall  have  no  room  or  other  obstruction  at  the 
end,  unless  sufficient  light  or  ventilation  is  otherwise  provided  for  said 
hall. 

§  27.  A  tenement  house,  within  the  meaning  of  this  chapter,  shall 
be  taken  to  mean  and  include  every  house,  building  or  portion 
thereof,  which  is  rented,  leased,  let  or  hired  out  to  be  occupied,  or 
is  occupied  as  the  home  or  residence  of  more  than  three  families  liv- 
ing independently  of  one  another,  and  doing  their  cooking  upon  the 
premises,  or  by  more  than  two  families  upon  a  floor,  so  living  and 
cooking,  but  having  a  common  right  in  the  halls,  stairways,  yards, 
water-closets  or  privies,  or  some  of  them. 

§  28.  A  lodging-house  shall  be  taken  to  mean  and  include  any 
house  or  building,  or  portion  thereof,  in  which  persons  are  harbored 
or  received,  or  lodged  for  hire  for  a  single  night,  or  for  less  than  a 
week  at  one  time,  or  any  part  of  which  is  let  for  any  person  to  sleep 
in  for  any  term  less  than  a  week. 

§  29.  A  cellar  shall  be  taken  to  mean  and  include  every  base- 
ment or  lower  story  of  any  building  or  house,  of  which  one-half  or 
more  of  the  height  from  the  floor  to  the  ceiling  is  below  the  level  of 
the  street  adjoining. 

§  30.     No  master  or  teacher,  or  manager  of  or  in  any  school, 


198  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

public  or  private,  or  of  or  in  any  Sunday  school  or  gymnasium,  nor 
the  officers  or  managers  thereof,  nor  officers  or  managers,  nor  per- 
sons having  charge  of  any  place  of  public  worship,  shall  so  far  omit 
or  neglect  any  duty  or  reasonable  care  or  precaution  respecting  the 
safety  or  health  of  any  scholar,  pupil,  or  attendant,  or  respecting  the 
temperature,  ventilation,  or  cleanliness  or  strength  of  any  church,  hall 
of  worship,  school  house,  school  room,  or  place  of  practice  or  exer- 
cise, or  relative  to  anything  appurtenant  thereto,  as  that  by  reason 
of  such  neglect  or  omission  the  health  of  any  person  shall  suffer  or 
incur  any  avoidable  peril  or  detriment. 

§  31.  Every  agent,  or  other  person  having  the  charge,  control 
or  management,  or  who  collects  or  receives  the  rents  of  any  lands, 
premises  or  other  property,  in  the  town,  shall  disclose  the  name 
or  names  of  the  owner  or  owners  of  such  land,  premises  or  prop- 
erty, or  the  name  or  names  of  the  person  or  persons  for  whom 
such  agent  or  other  person  is  acting,  upon  application  being  made 
therefor  by  any  inspector,  agent  or  officer  of  the  department  of 
health. 

§  32.  No 'keeper,  or  other  officer  or  person  having  control  or 
authority  in  any  town  jail,  prison,  station,  or  other  place  where  any 
person  may  be  kept  or  confined,  shall  needlessly  or  illegally  cause 
or  allow  any  peril  or  detriment  to  the  health  of  any  such  person  by 
reason  of  too  little  or  too  much  heat,  or  of  a  want  of  food,  drink  or 
ventilation,  or  from  the  want  or  neglect  of  any  other  reasonable  care, 
protection  or  precaution. 

§  33.  No  person  or  persons  shall  throw,  place  or  deposit,  or 
cause  to  be  thrown,  placed  or  deposited,  any  dung,  carrion,  dead 
animal,  offal  or  putrid  or  unwholesome  substance,  or  the  contents  of 
any  privy,  upon  any  public  grounds,  or  upon  any  lot  within  the 
limits  of  The  Town  of  Lake. 

§  34.  No  person  shall  permit  or  have  any  offensive  water  or 
other  liquid  or  substance  on  his  premises  or  grounds  to  the  preju- 
dice of  life  or  health,  whether  for  use  in  any  trade  or  otherwise ;  and 
no  establishment  or  place  of  business  for  tanning,  skinning  or  scour- 
ing, or  for  dressing  hides  or  leather,  or  for  carrying  on  any  offensive 
or  noisome  trade  or  business,  shall  hereafter  be  opened,  started  or 
established  in  The  Town  of  Lake  without  a  permit  from  the  board  of 
trustees.  And  every  such  establishment  now  existing  shall  be  kept 
cleanly  and  wholesome,  and  be  so  conducted  in  every  particular  as 
not  to  be  offensive  or  prejudicial  to  life  or  health. 

§    35.     No    swill,  brine,    urine    of    animals,  or    other    offensive 


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animal  substance,  nor  any  stinking,  noxious  liquid  or  other  filthy 
matter  of  any  kind,  shall  by  any  person  be  allowed  to  run  or  fall 
from  out  of  any  building,  vehicle  or  erection  into  or  upon  any  street 
or  public  place,  or  be  taken  or  put  therein  save  as  herein  elsewhere 
provided. 

^  36.  No  butcher's  oftal  or  garbage,  nor  any  dead  animals, 
.nor  any  putrid  or  stinking  animal  or  vegetable  matter  shall  be  thrown 
by  any  person,  or  allowed  to  go  into  any  street,  place,  sewer  or 
receiving  basin,  or  into  any  standing  or  running  water  or  excava- 
tion, or  upon  any  ground  or  premises  in  the  said  town. 

§  37.  No  person  shall  draw  off,  or  allow  to  run  oft'  into  any 
ground,  street  or  place  of  said  town,  the  contents  (or  any  part 
thereof)  of  any  vault,  privy,  cistern,  cesspool  or  sink ;  nor  shall  any 
owner,  tenant  or  occupant  of  any  building  to  which  any  vault,  sink, 
privy  or  cesspool  shall  appertain  or  be  attached,  permit  the  con- 
tents or  any  part  thereof  to  flow  therefrom,  or  to  rise  within  two 
feet  of  any  part  of  the  top,  or  said  contents  to  become  offensive; 
nor  shall  any  privy  or  other  erection  in  this  section  mentioned  be 
filled  with  or  covered  with  dirt  till  its  filthy  contents  shall  be  emp- 
tied. 

§  38.  No  person  shall  throw  into  or  deposit  in  any  vault,  sink, 
privy  or  cesspool  any  oftal,  ashes,  meat,  fish,  garbage  or  other 
substance,  except  that  of  which  any  such  place  is  the  appropriate 
receptacle ;  nor  shall  any  slops  or  kitchen  waste  be  permitted  to  run 
into  any  privy  or  cesspool,  except  the  same  be  connected  with  the 
sewer. 

§  39.  Neither  the  contents  of  any  such  tub,  or  of  any  re- 
ceptacle, cesspool,  privy,  vault,  sink  or  water-closet,  cistern,  nor 
anything  in  any  room,  excavation,  vat,  building,  premises  or  place, 
shall  be  allowed  to  become  a  nuisance  or  offensive  so  as  to  be 
dangerous  or  prejudicial  to  health. 

§  40.  No  person  shall  deposit  upon  any  street  or  public  place 
within  the  limits  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  or  upon  any  paved 
street,  any  dirt  or  brick  or  other  material  or  dirt  taken  from  any 
ground  therein  in  such  manner  as  to  obstruct  the  free  flowage  along 
any  gutter. 

§  41.  No  lime,  ashes,  coal,  dry  sand,  hair,  feathers  or  other 
substance  that  is  in  a  similar  manner  liable  to  be  blown  by  the 
wind,  shall  be  sieved  or  agitated  or  exposed;  nor  shall  any  mat, 
carpet  or  cloth  be  shaken  or  beaten,  nor  any  cloth,  yarn,  garment  or 


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material  or  substance  be  scoured,  cleaned  or  hung,  nor  any  business 
be  conducted  over  or  in  any  street  or  public  place,  or  where  it  or 
particles  therefrom  or  set  in  motion  thereby  will  pass  into  any  such- 
street  or  public  place,  or  into  any  occupied  premises;  that  neither 
any  usual  nor  any  reasonable  precaution  shall  be  omitted  by  any  per- 
son to  prevent  fragments  or  other  substances  from  falling  to  the 
peril  of  life,  or  dust  and  light  material  flying  into  any  street,  place  or 
building,  from  any  building  or  erection  while  the  same  is  being 
altered,  repaired  or  demolished  or  otherwise. 

§  42.  No  part  of  the  contents  of  any  privy,  vault,  sink,  cess- 
pool, except  substances  other  than  excrements  insoluble  in  water, 
or  any  accumulation  of  any  offensive  fluid,  liquid  or  semi-liquid 
substance  or  .material,  being  in  any  excavation,  cellar  or  place  within 
the  limits  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  shall  be  removed  therefromy 
nor  shall  the  same  be  transported  through  any  of  the  streets  or 
avenues  of  said  town,  unless  and  except  the  same  shall  be  removed 
and  transported  by  means  of  an  air-tight  apparatus,  or  in  such  a 
manner  as  shall  prevent  entirely  the  escape  of  any  noxious  or  offen- 
sive odors  therefrom,  and  by  a  permit  from  the  department  o£ 
health. 

• 

§  43.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  using,  making  or 
having  any  drain,  soil-pipe  or  passage  to  connect  with  any  sewer 
from  any  ground,  building,  erection  or  place  of  business,  and  in  like 
manner  the  duty  of  the  owner  and  tenant  of  all  grounds,  buildings- 
and  erections,  and  of  the  parties  interested  in  such  place  of  business 
or  the  business  thereat,  and  in  like  manner  the  duty  of  all  depart- 
ments, officers  and  persons  (to  the  extent  of  the  right  and  authority 
of  each),  to  cause  and  require  that  such  drain,  soil-pipe,  passage  and 
connection  shall  at  all  times  be  adequate  for  its  purpose,  and  such  as 
shall  convey  and  allow  freely  and  entirely  to  pass  whatever  enters 
or  should  enter  the  same. 

§  44.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  departments,  officers  and- 
persons  having  power  and  authority  so  to  do  or  require  (and  to 
the  extent  thereof),  to  cause  to  be  used  sufficient  water,  and  other 
adequate  means  to  be  taken,  so  that  whatever  substances  may  enter 
any  sewer  shall  pass  speedily  along  and  from  the  same,  and  suffi- 
ciently far  into  some  water  or  proper  reservoir,  so  that  no  accumu- 
lations shall  take  place,  and  no  exhalations  from  thence  proceed,  dan- 
gerous or  prejudicial  to  health. 

§  45.  The  proper  officers  and  authorities  shall,  to  the  extent 
of  their  power  and  ability,  cause  the  sewers  and  drainage  of  said 
town  to  be  so  well  located  and  constructed,  so  adequate  in  size, 


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and  to  be  so  kept  in  repair  and  cleaned,  and  so  adequately  supplied 
with  water,  and  with  such  proper  arrangements  and  constructions  in 
every  particular,  that  life  and  health  shall  not  be  needlessly  exposed, 
or  suffer  unnecessary  peril  or  detriment  by  their  neglect,  or  by  rea- 
son of  the  defects  or  deficiencies  of  any  sewers  or  drainage,  or  the 
want  thereof. 

§  46.  No  person  or  company  being  a  manufacturer'  of  gas, 
or  engaged  about  the  manufacture  thereof,  shall  throw  or  deposit  or 
allow  to  run,  or  having  the  right  or  power  to  prevent  the  same  shall 
permit  to  be  thrown  or  deposited  in  any  public  waters,  river,  canal, 
slip,  or  into  any  sewer  therewith  connected,  or  into  any  street  or 
public  place,  any  gas-tar  or  any  refuse  matter  of  or  from  any  gas- 
house,  works  or  manufactory;  nor  shall  any  such  person  or  company 
allow  any  substance  or  odor  to  escape  from  such  house,  works  or 
manufactory,  or  make  any  gas  of  such  ingredients  or  quality  that 
any  substance  shall  escape  therefom,  or  be  formed  in  the  process  of 
burning  any  gas,  which  shall  be  offensive  or  dangerous,  or  preju- 
dicial to  life  or  health.  Nor  shall  any  such  person  or  company  fail 
to  use  the  most  approved  or  all  reasonable  means  for  preventing  the 
escape  of  odors. 

§  47.  No  water-closet,  sink,  tub,  vat  or  other  structure  shall 
hereafter  be  constructed  within  The  Town  of  Lake  having  con- 
nection with  or  by  any  sewer  or  underground  passage,  unless  the 
same  is  provided  with  adequate  or  the  best  generally  approved  con- 
structions and  precautions  for  preventing  gases  and  other  offensive 
currents,  substances  and  smells  from  passing  up  or  out  through  such 
connection  from  such  sewer  or  passage;  nor  shall  any  such  water- 
closet  or  privy  be  constructed  without  adequate  provisions  for  the 
effectual  and  proper  ventilation  and  cleansing  thereof. 

§  48.  No  part  of  the  contents  of  or  substances  from  any  sink, 
privy  or  cesspool,  nor  any  manure,  ashes,  garbage,  offal,  rubbish, 
dirt,  nor  any  refuse  or  waste  or  thing  which  by  its  decomposi- 
tion could  or  would  become  offensive  to  human  beings  or  detri- 
mental to  health,  or  create  or  tend  to  create  a  nuisance,  shall  be  by 
any  person  thrown,  deposited  or  placed  upon  any  street  or  public 
place,  nor  upon  any  vacant  lot  of  land  or  vacant  place  upon  the  sur- 
face of  any  lot  of  land  within  The  Town  of  Lake,  whether  such 
lot  be  inclosed  or  otherwise,  without  the  written  permission  of  the 
health  commissioner,  nor  shall  any  of  said  substances  be  allowed 
by  any  person  to  run  or  drop  from  the  premises  occupied  by  such 
person,  into  or  upon  any  street  or  public  place,  nor  upon  any  vacant 
lot  of  land,  or  vacant  place  upon  the  surface  of  any  lot  of  land  in 


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said  town,  nor  shall  the  same  be  thrown,  deposited  or  placed  by  any 
person  nor  allowed  to  fall  or  run  from  the  premises  occupied  by  such 
person  into  the  river,  or  any  canal  or  slip,  save  through  the  proper 
underground  connection ;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person 
knowing  of  the  violation  of  this  chapter  to  report  the  same,  and 
if  known,  the  name  of  the  person  violating  it,  together  with  the 
residence  of  such  person  and  the  facts  concerning  such  violation  to 
the  health  commissioner  within  forty-eight  hours  after  the  knowl- 
edge of  such  violation. 

§  49.  Every  tub  or  other  receptacle  in  any  necessary  l^use, 
sink  or  privy  (or  placed  or  allowed  to  stand  therein  by  any  owner, 
tenant  or  occupant  of  any  building  or  premises),  and  used  to  contain 
-any  liquid  or  partially  liquid  substance,  shall  be  sufficiently  strong, 
perfectly  tight,  and  adequately  provided  with  a  strong  cover  and 
with  hoops  and  handles;  shall  not  be  allowed  to  be  filled  to  within 
four  inches  of  any  part  of  the  top,  and  shall  not  be  allowed  (or  its 
contents)  to  be  offensive.  And  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  rela- 
tive to  emptying  cesspools,  and  to  throwing  any  substance  therein, 
shall  apply  to  said  tubs  and  receptacles  as  if  here  repeated  and 
applied  thereto. 

§  50.  No  person  shall  throw,  drop  or  allow  to  fall  into  the  river, 
canal,  slip,  or  into  any  street  or  place,  any  substance  being,  or  hav- 
ing been  part  of,  the  contents  of  anv  such  vault,  cesspool,  privy,  sink, 
tub  or  receptacle,  or  any  offal. 

§  51.  No  meat,  fish,  birds  or  fowl,  or  vegetables,  nor  any  milk, 
not  being  then  healthy,  fresh,  sound,  wholesome  and  safe  for 
human  food,  nor  any  meat  or  fish  that  died  by  disease  or  accident, 
shall  be  brought  within  said  town,  or  offered  or  held  for  sale  in  any 
public  or  private  market,  as  such  food,  anywhere  in  said  town. 

§  52.  No  calf,  pig  or-  lamb,  or  the  meat  thereof,  shall  be 
brought,  held  or  offered  for  sale,  as  such  food,  in  said  town,  which, 
at  the  date  of  its  death  (being  a  calf),  was  less  than  four  weeks  old; 
or  (being  a  pig)  was,  when  killed,  less  than  five  weeks  old;  or  (being 
a  lamb)  was,  when  killed,  less  than  eight  weeks  old.  Nor  shall  any 
meagre,  sickly  or  unwholesome  fish,  birds  or  fowl  be  brought,  held, 
sold  or  offered  for  sale,  as  such  food,  in  said  town. 

§  53.  No  cattle  shall  be  killed  for  human  food  while  in  an  over- 
heated, feverish  or  diseased  condition;  and  all  such  diseased  cat- 
tle, in  The  Town  of  Lake,  and  the  place  where  found,  and  their 
disease,  shall  be  at  once  reported  to  the  health  commissioner,  by  the 
owner  or  custodian  thereof,  that  the  proper  order  may  be  made  rel- 
ative thereto. 


HEALTH.  2O3 

§  54.  No  meat,  or  dead  animal  above  the  size  of  a  rabbit,  shall 
be  taken  t'o  any  public  or  private  market  for  food  until  the  same 
shall  have  fully  cooled  (and  all  blood  shall  have  ceased  dripping 
therefrom)  after  its  killing,  nor  until  the  entrails,  head,  (unless  the 
same  be  skinned,)  hide,  horns  and  feet  shall  have  been  removed. 
Nor  shall  gut-fat,  or  any  unwholesome  or  offensive  matter  or  thing 
be  brought  to  or  near  any  such  market. 

^  55.  No  decayed  or  unwholesome  vegetables  shall  be  brought 
into  said  town,  to  be  consumed  or  offered  for  -sale  for  human  food, 
nor  shall  any  such  articles  be  kept  or  stored  therein. 

^  56.  No  person,  being  the  manager  or  keeper  of  any  saloon, 
boarding-house,  or  lodgings-house,  or  being  employed  as  a  clerk, 
servant  or  agent  thereat,  shall  therein  or  thereat  offer  or  have  for 
food  or  drink,  or  to  be  eaten  or  drank,  any  poisonous,  deleterious 
or  unwholesome  substance,  nor  allow  anything  therein  to  be  done 
or  to  occur  prejudicial  to  health. 

§  57.  No  cased,  blown,  plaited,  raised,  stuffed,  putrid,  impure  or 
unhealthy  or  unwholesome  meat  or  fish,  bird  or  fowl  shall  be  held, 
bought  or  sold  or  offered  for  sale  for  human  food,  or  held  or  kept  in  any 
market,  public  or  private,  or  any  public  place  in  said  town. 

$58.  No  meat,  fish,  vegetables  or  milk,  or  unwholesome  liquid, 
shall  knowingly  be  bought,  sold,  held,  offered  for  sale,  labeled,  or 
any  representation  made  in  respect  thereof  under  a  false  name  or 
quality,  or  as  being  what  the  same  is  not  as  respects  wholesomeness, 
soundness  or  safety  for  food  or  drink. 

§  59.  Every  person  being  the  owner,  lessee,  or  occupant  of  any 
room,  stall  or  place  where  any  meat,  fish  or  vegetables,  designed 
or  held  for  human  food  shall  be  stored  or  kept,  or  shall  be  held  or 
offered  for  sale,  shall  put  and  keep  such  room,  stall  and  place  and  its 
appurtenances  in  a  clean  and  wholesome  condition;  and  every  per- 
son having  charge,  or  being  interested  or  engaged,  whether  as  prin- 
cipal or  agent,  in  the  care,  or  in  respect  to  the  custody  or  sale  of  any 
meat,  fish,  birds,  fowl  or  vegetables  designed  for  human  food,  shall 
put  and  preserve  the  same  in  a  clean  and  wholesome  condition,  and 
shall  not  allow  the  same  or  any  part  thereof  to  be  poisoned,  infected 
or  rendered  unsafe  or  unwholesome  for  human  food. 

§  60.  No  butcher  or  dealer  shall  keep  in  any  market  any  refrig- 
erator or  ice-box,  unless  the  same  shall  be  lined  with  lead  or  some 
proper  substance  so  as  to  be  water-tight,  nor  unless  the  same  be 
provided  with  a  pipe  of  lead,  zinc  or  copper  leading  therefrom  to 
the  proper  waste  pipe. 


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§  61.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  knowing  of  any- 
fish,  meat,  fowls,  birds  or  vegetables  being  bought,  sold 'or  offered 
or  held  for  sale  as  food  for  human  beings,  or  being  in  any  market 
public  or  private  in  said  town,  and  ,  not  being  sound,  healthy  or 
wholesome  for  such  food,  to  forthwith  report  such  facts  and  the  par- 
ticulars relating  thereto,  to  the  department  of  health  or  to  one  of  its 
officers  or  inspectors. 

§  62.  No  person  shall  without  consent  of  the  health  commis- 
sioner bring  into  said  town  for  use  as  a  drink  for  human  beings,, 
or  offer  or  have  for  sale  in  said  town  as  such  drink  any  poisonous  or 
deleterious  liquid. 

§  63.  If  any  person  shall  expose  for  sale  in  any  market  house 
or  elsewhere  in  said  town,  any  emaciated,  tainted  or  putrid  meat  or 
provisions,  which  from  these  or  other  causes  may  be  deemed  un- 
wholesome, such  person  shall  on  conviction  be  fined  not  less  than 
five  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  and  every  offense, 
and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  health  officer  to  forthwith  seize  and 
confiscate  all  such  meat  and  provisions. 

§  64.  No  person  shall  have  at  any  place  where  milk,  butter  or 
cheese  is  kept  for  sale,  nor  shall  at  any  place  sell  or  deliver  or  offer 
or  have  for  sale  or  keep  for  use,  nor  shall  any  person  bring  or  send 
to  said  town,  any  unwholesome,  skimmed,  watered  or  adulterated 
milk,  or  milk  known  as  '•  swill  milk,"  or  milk  from  cows  or  other 
animals  that  for  the  most  part  have  been  kept  in  stables  or  that 
have  been  fed  on  swill,  or  milk  from  sick  or  diseased  cows  or  other 
animals,  or  any  butter  or  cheese  made  from  any  such  milk  or  any 
unwholesome  butter  or  cheese. 

§  65.  No  person  shall  allow  to  run  or  pass  into  any  water- 
pipe,  any  animal,  vegetable,  or  mineral  substance  whatever;  nor 
shall  any  person  do  or  permit  to  be  done  (having  right  or  power  to 
prevent  the  same),  any  act  or  thing  that  will  impair  or  imperil  the 
purity  or  wholesomeness  of  any  water  or  other  fluid  used  or  designed 
as  a  drink  in  any  part  of  said  town. 

§  66.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person,  officer  and  de- 
partment, having  any  authority  and  control  in  regard  to  any  water 
designed  for  human  consumption  (and  within  the  proper  sphere  of 
the  duty  of  each  thereof),  to  take  all  usual  and  also  all  reasonable 
measures  and  precautions  to  secure  and  preserve  the  purity  and 
wholesomeness  of  such  water. 

§  67.  No  person  shall  destroy,  nor  in  anywise  injure  or  im- 
pair any  drinking-hydrant  or  part  thereof  in  the  said  town;  nor 


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shall  any  person  interfere  with  the  use  of  or  enjoyment  of  the 
water  therein  or  therefrom,  or  interrupt  the  flow  thereof,  for  or  as 
a  drink;  nor  shall  any  person  put  any  dirty,  poisonous,  medicinal 
or  any  noxious  substance  into  or  near  said  water  or  hydrant  whereby 
such  water  is  made  or  may  be  regarded  as  dangerous  or  unwhole- 
some as  a  drink. 

§  68.  No  cattle  shall  be  kept  in  any  place  of  which  the 
water,  ventilation  and  food  are  not  sufficient  and  wholesome  for  the 
preservation  of  their  health,  safe  condition  and  wholesomeness  of 

food. 

• 

§  69.  Every  person  shall  cause  every  stable  and  place  where 
any  cows,  horses  or  other  animals  may  be,  to  be  kept  at  all 
times  in  clean  and  wholesome  condition,  and  shall  not  allow  any 
animal  to  be  therein  while  infected  with  any  disease,  contagious  or 
pe  stilential  among  such  animals,  without  a  permit  from  the  health 
ommissioner. 

§  70.  No  cattle,  swine,  pigs  or  sheep,  geese,  goats  or  horses, 
shall  be  yarded  within  The  Town  of  Lake,  without  the  permit  of 
said  commissioner,  or  otherwise  than  according  to  the  regulations  of 
the  department  of  health. 

§  71.  No  cattle  shall  be  placed  or  carried  while  bound  or 
tied  by  their  legs,  or  bound  down  by  the  necks,  in  any  vehicle  in 
this  town,  but  shall  be  allowed  freely  to  stand  in  such  vehicle  when 
transported  and  while  being  therein. 

§  72.  The  keeping  and  slaughtering  of  all  cattle,  and  the  pre- 
paration and  keeping  of  all  meat  and  fish,  birds  and  fowl  shall  be 
in  that  manner  which  is  or  is  generally  reputed  or  known  to  be 
best  adapted  to  secure  and  continue  their  safety  and  wholesomeness 
as  food.  The  slaughtering  of  cattle  shall  not  be  permitted  or  con- 
ducted at  any  place  in  The  Town  of  Lake  without  a  special  permit 
from  the  board  of  trustees. 

§  73.  Every  butcher  and  every  person  owning,  leasing  or  oc- 
cupying any  place,  room  or  building  where  any  cattle  have  been 
or  are  killed  or  dressed,  and  every  person  being  the  owner,  lessee 
or  occupant  of  any  room  or  stable  where  any  cattle  may  be  kept, 
or  market  public  or  private,  and  having  power  and  authority  so  to 
do,  shall  cause  such  place,  room,  building,  stall  (and  market,  being 
private),  and  their  yards  and  appurtenances,  to  be  thoroughly 
cleansed  and  purified,  and  all  offal,  blood,  fat,  garbage,  refuse  and 
unwholesome  or  offensive  matter  to  be  therefrom  removed  at  least 


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once  in  every  twenty-four  hours  after  the  use  thereof  for  any  of  the 
purposes  herein  referred  to ;  and  shall  also  at  all  times  (unless  some 
public  authority  prevents),  keep  all  woodwork,  save  floors  and 
counters,  in  any  building,  place  or  premises  aforesaid,  thoroughly 
painted  or  whitewashed. 

§  74.  No  cattle  shall  be  slaughtered,  dressed  or  hung,  or 
the  meat  or  any  part  thereof  within  said  town,  wholly  or  partly 
within  any  street,  avenue  or  sidewalk  or  public  alley  or  place;  nor 
shall  any  blood  or  dirty  water  or  other  substance  from  such  cattle, 
meat  or  place  of  killing  or  the  appurtenances  thereof,  be  allowed 
to  run,  fall  or  to  be  in  any  such  street,  avenue,  sidewalk,  alley  or 
place. 

§  75.  No  building  occupied  wholly  or  partly  as  a  slaughter- 
house or  any  part  thereof,  or  any  building  on  the  same  lot,  shall 
without  a  special  permit  from  the  commissioner  of  health  be  occu- 
pied for  a  dwelling  or  lodging  place;  every  such  building  shall  at 
all  times  be  kept  adequately  and  thoroughly  ventilated;  no  blood 
.shall  be  allowed  to  remain  therein  over  night;  adequate  under- 
ground connections  shall  be  made  from  every  such  building  with 
a  public  sewer,  and  the  floor  of  such  building  on  which  the  slaugh- 
tering is  done,  and  the  yard,  shall  be  cemented  and  paved  so  as  not 
to  absorb  blood,  and  so  as  to  carry  all  liquid  into  the  sewers. 

§  76.  Neither  the  business  of  slaughtering  cattle,  nor  the  keep- 
ing of  any  slaughter-house,  nor  the  yarding  of  cattle,  shall  be  begun 
or  undertaken  at  any  new  or  additional  place  within  The  Town  of 
Lake,  except  pursuant  to  a  permit  from  the  board  of  trustees;  nor 
shall  any  person  or  corporation  keep  any  slaughter-house  or  yard, 
or  any  cattle  therein  hereafter  without  a  permit  from  said  board. 

§  77.  No  person  shall  kill  or  dress  any  animal  or  meat  in  any 
market,  nor  have,  or  permit  to  escape  therein,  or  within  one  hundred 
feet  thereof,  any  poisonous,  noxious  or  offensive  substance. 

§  78.  Every  butcher,  grocer  and  milk  dealer,  and  their  agents, 
shall  allow  the  parties  authorized  by  the  health  commissioner  to 
freely  and  fully  inspect  their  cattle  and  milk,  meats,  fish  and  vege- 
tables, held,  offered  or  intended  for  sale,  and  will  be  expected  to 
answer  all  reasonable  and  proper  questions  asked  by  such  persons 
relative  to  the  condition  thereof,  and  of  the  places  where  such 
articles  may  be. 

§  79.  No  offal  or  butcher's  refuse  shall  be  conveyed  through 
any  street  or  avenue  of  The  Town  of  Lake  between  the  hours  of 


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10  o'clock  A.  M.  and  10  o'clock  p.  M.,  and  no  offal  or  refuse  shall  be 
conveyed  at  any  time  unless  the  same  be  in  tight  boxes,  barrels  or 
vessels,  from  which  no  odor  shall  escape. 

§  80.  No  keeper  of  any  public  pound  in  The  Town  of  Lake 
shall  allow  the  same,  or  any  animal  therein,  by  reason  of  any  want 
of  care,  food,  ventilation  or  cleanliness,  or  otherwise,  to  be  or  be- 
come dangerous  or  detrimental  to  human  health. 

§  81.  No  person  shall  boil  any  offal,  swill,  bones  or  fat  in  said 
town,  save  in  ordinary  cooking;  nor  shall  the  business  of  bone 
crushing,  bone  boiling,  bone  grinding,  bone  burning,  shell  burning, 
fat  boiling,  gut  cleaning,  nor  the  skinning  or  making  of  glue  from 
any  dead  animals  or  parts  thereof,  nor- any  other  occupation  that  is 
dangerous  or  detrimental  to  life  or  health,  be  hereafter  established  or 
carried  on  within  the  limits  of  said  town,  unless  the  same  be  allowed 
by  a  permit  of  the  board  of  trustees. 

§82.  No  person  shall  boil  any  offal,  swill  or  bones,  nor  any 
fat,  tallow  or  lard  (except  upon  the  same  being  taken  at  once  from 
the  animal,  and  while  the  same  is  fresh  and  otherwise  inoffensive); 
nor  shall  the  business  of  bone  crushing,  bone  boiling,  bone  grinding, 
bone  burning,  shell  burning,  gut  cleaning,  nor  the  skinning  of  or 
making  of  glue  from  any  dead  animal  or  part  thereof,  nor  the  storage 
or  keeping  of  scrap,  fat  or  grease  or  offensive  animal  matter,  be 
permitted  or  conducted  at  any  place  within  the  limits  of  the  town, 
without  a  special  permit  from  the  board  of  trustees;  nor  shall  the 
business  of  boiling  or  rendering  the  fresh  lard  fat  or  tallow  aforesaid, 
be  conducted  within  said  town,  without  a  like  special  permit  from 
said  board;  and  such  permit  must  be  applied  for  in  writing,  speci- 
fying the  nature  and  precise  location  of  the  proposed  business,  and 
such  application  shall  not  be  acted  upon  until  the  second  regular 
meeting,  after  such  application. 

§  83.  All  persons  engaged  in  the  business  of  boiling  or  ren- 
dering of  fat,  lard  or  animal  matter,  shall  cause  the  scrap  or 
residuum  to  be  so  dried  or  otherwise  prepared,  as  effectually  to 
deprive  such  material  of  all  offensive  odors,  and  to  preserve  the 
same  entirely  inoffensive  immediately  after  the  removal  thereof  from 
the  receptacles  in  which  the  rendering  process  may  be  conducted. 

§  84.  No  person  shall  hereafter  erect,  start  or  establish  in  said 
town,  without  the  consent  of  the  board  of  trustees,  any  manu- 
factory or  place  of  business  for  boiling  any  varnish  or  oil,  or  for  the 
distilling  of  any  ardent  or  alcoholic  spirits,  or  for  making  any  lamp- 
black, turpentine  or  tar,  or  for  conducting  any  other  business  that 


2O8  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

will  or  does  generate  any  unwholesome,  offensive  or  deleterious  gas, 
smoke,  deposit  or  exhalation,  or  any  business  that  is  or  would  be 
dangerous  to  life  or  detrimental  to  health. 

§  85.  No  ground  or  material  filled  with  offensive  matter  or 
substance,  or  that  will  emit  or  allow  to  arise,  through  or  from  the 
same  any  offensive  smell  or  deleterious  exhalation,  shall  be  opened 
or  turned  up,  or  the  surface  thereof  removed,  between  the  first  da)" 
of  May  and  the  first  da}'  of  October  of  any  year,  except  according 
to  permit  first  therefor  obtained  from  the  health  commissioner. 

§  86.  No  fat,  tallow  or  lard  shall  be  melted  or  rendered  ex- 
cept when  fresh  from  the  slaughtered  animal,  and  taken  directly 
from  the  place  of  slaughter,  and  in  a  condition  free  from  sourness 
and  taint,  and  all  other  cause  of  offense  at  the  time  of  rendering, 
and  all  melting  and  rendering  must  be  in  steamtight  vessels,  the 
gases  and  odors  therefrom  to  be  destroyed  by  combustion  or 
other  means  equally  effective,  and  according  to  the  best  and  most 
approved  means  and  processes;  and  even*  thing  preceding,  follow- 
ing and  in  connection  with  such  melting  and  rendering,  and  the 
premises  where  the  same  shall  be  conducted,  must  be  free  from  all 
offensive  odor,  and  other  cause  of  detriment  to  the  public  health. 
No  fat,  lard  or  tallow  shall  be  brought  into  The  Town  of  Lake  to  be 
rendered  or  melted,  and  none  is  to  be  rendered  or  melted  that  has 
come  from  an}-  place  outside  of  said  town,  except  as  part  of  the  liv- 
ing animal. 

§  87.  Every  cart  and  other  vehicle  hereafter  constructed  for 
or  intended  to  be  loaded  with  manure,  swill,  ashes,  offal,  rubbish 
or  garbage,  or  other  offensive  or  noxious  substance,  shall  be  con- 
structed according  to  this  chapter,  and  the  regulations  and  orders 
of  the  department  of  health. 

§  88.  No  cart  or  other  vehicle  for  carrving  any  offal,  swill, 
garbage  or  rubbish,  or  the  contents  of  any  privy,  vault,  cess- 
pool or  si :ik,  or  having  upon  it  or  in  it  anv  manure  or  other 
nauseous  or  offensive  substance,  shall,  without  necessity  therefor, 
stand  or  remain;  nor  shall  a  needless  number  gather  before  or  near 
any  building,  place  of  business  or  other  premises  where  any 
person  may  be;  nor  shall  any  such  cart  or  vehicle  occupy  an  un- 
reasonable length  of  time  in  loading  or  unloading  or  in  passing 
along  any  street  or  through  any  inhabited  place  or  ground;  nor 
shall  any  such  cart  or  vehicle,  or  the  driver  thereof  or  anything 
thereto  appertaining,  be  (or  by  any  person  having  a  right  to  control 
the  same  be  allowed  to  be^  in  a  condition  needlessly  filthy  or  offen- 
sive; and  when  not  in  use,  all  such  carts,  vehicles  and  all  imple- 


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ments  used  in  connection  therewith,  shall  be  stored  and  kept  in  some 
place  where  no  needless  offense  shall  be  given  to  any  of  the  people 
•of  said  town. 

^  89.  All  carts  and  vehicles  in  the  last  section  mentioned, 
and  boxes,  tubs  and  receptacles  thereon  in  which  .any  substance  in 
said  section  referred  to  may  be  or  is  carried,  shall  be  strong  and 
tight,  so  that  no  part  of  such  contents  or  load  shall  fall,  leak  or  spill 
therefrom;  and  shall  be  adequately  and  tightly  covered,  so  as  to 
prevent  the  same  from  being  offensive. 

<^  90.  No  driver  of  such  cart  or  vehicle,  nor  any  person  hav- 
ing undertaken  or  being  engaged  about  the  loading  or  unloading 
thereof,  nor  any  person  or  persons  engaged  about  the  cleaning  or 
emptying,  or  having  undertaken  to  empty  or  remove  any  manure, 
garbage,  offal  or  the  contents  of  any  vault,  sink,  privy,  cesspool  or 
any  noxious  or  offensive  substance,  shall  do  or  permit  to  be  done 
about  the  same,  or  in  connection  therewith,  that  which  shall  be  need- 
lessly offensive  or  filthy  in  respect  to  any  person,  street,  place,  build- 
ing or  premises,  and  all  carts  or  vehicles  shall  be  thoroughly  disin- 
fected and  put  in  an  inoffensive  condition  when  not  in  use. 

§  91.  No  person  shall  allow  (and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  every 
scavenger,  contractor  and  person  who  has  ordered  or  procured  or 
is  having  any  of  the  following  articles  carried,  or  who  is  driving 
the  same  to  prevent),  any  cart  or  vehicle  to  be  so  fully  loaded,  or 
to  be  in  such  bad  condition  of  repair,  or  of  such  faulty  construction, 
or  to  be  so  improperly  driven  or  managed,  that  any  offensive  liquid, 
or  any  manure,  garbage,  rubbish,  offal,  dirt  or  material  thereon,  shall 
fall  upon  or  in  any  place,  street  or  premises;  and  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  every  such  person  to  at  once  replace  on  such  vehicle  and 
remove  what  has  so  fallen. 

§  92.  All  putrid  or  offensive  matter,  and  all  night  soil,  and  the 
contents  of  sinks,  privies,  vaults  and  cess  pools,  and  all  noxious 
substances  in  the  said  town  shall,  before  their  removal  or  exposure, 
be  disinfected  and  rendered  inoffensive  by  the  person  who  removes, 
or  is  about  to  remove  the  same. 

§  93.  Neither  the  owner,  tenant  nor  occupant  of  any  build- 
ing or  premises  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  shall  employ,  cause  or 
permit  any  part  of  the  contents  of  any  vault,  privy,  sink  or  cesspool 
(being  thereon,  and  of  which  he  has  control),  to  be  removed,  unless 
according  to  a  permit  or  the  regulations  of  the  said  department  of 
health. 


2IO  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

§  94.  No  pile  or  deposit  of  manure,  offal,  dirt  or  garbage,  nor 
any  accumulation  of  any  offensive  or  nauseous  substance,  shall  be 
made  within  The  Town  of  Lake,  or  upon  any  open  space  inclosed 
within  any  portions  thereof,  and  no  person  shall  contribute  to  the 
making  of  any  such  accumulations.  Nor  shall  any  straw,  hay  or  other 
substance  which  has  been  used  as  bedding  for  animals,  be  placed  or 
dried  upon  any  street  or  sidewalk,  or  roof  of  any  building;  nor  shall 
any  such  straw,  hay  or  other  substance  be  deposited,  nor  shall 
accumulation  thereof  be  made,  within  two  hundred  feet  of  any  street, 
without  a  permit  from  said  department. 

§  95.  No  pile  or  deposit  of  manure,  offal  or  garbage,  nor  accu- 
mulation of  any  offensive  or  nauseous  substance,  shall  be  made 
within  the  limits  of  said  town;  nor  shall  any  person  or  corporation 
unload,  discharge  or  put  upon  or  along  the  line  of  any  railroad, 
street  or  highway,  or  public  place  within  said  town,  any  manure, 
offal,  garbage  or  other  offensive  or  nauseous  substance;  nor  shall 
cars  or  flats  loaded  with  or  having  in  or  upon  them  any  such  sub- 
stance or  substances  be  allowed  to  remain  or  stand  on  or  along  any 
railroad,  street,  or  highway  within  the  limits  of  said  town  within 
three  hundred  yards  of  any  inhabited  dwelling.  All  manure  vaults, 
attached  to  stables,  where  more  than  two  horses  or  cows  are  kept, 
shall,  between  April  and  November  in  each  year,  be  emptied  twice 
in  each  week,  and  such  vault  shall  in  no  case  be  permitted  to  be- 
come a  nuisance. 

§  96.  No  manure,  garbage,  or  other  material  that  is  liable  to 
emit  an  offensive  exhalation,  shall  be  turned  or  stirred  (except  about 
its  removal),  in  such  way  as  to  be  liable,  by  reason  thereof,  to  in- 
crease such  exhalations. 

£  97.  Every  proprietor,  lessee,  tenant,  and  occupant  of  any 
oyster-house,  oyster-saloon,  or  other  premises  where  any  oysters, 
clams,  lobsters,  or  shell,  or  other  fish  are  consumed,  used  or  sold, 
or  where  any  of  the  refuse  matter,  offal  or  shells  thereof  accumu- 
late, shall  daily  cause  all  such  shells,  offal  and  refuse  matter  to  be, 
removed  there  from  to  some  proper  place,  and  shall  keep  his  house 
saloon  and  premises  at  all  times  free  from  any  offensive  smells  or 
accumulations. 

§  98.  No  hotel  or  house  swill  or  garbage,  or  offensive  mate- 
rial of  a  liquid  nature,  or  partly  liquid  nature,  not  removed,  or 
required  to  be  removed  by  the  contractors  for  street  cleaning,  shall 
be  transported  through  or  along  any  street  in  the  town,  except  in 
tightly  covered  and  bound  casks  or  boxes,  and  none  of  the  contents 


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of  such  casks  or  boxes  shall  be  allowed  to  fall,  or  leak  or  spill 
therefrom. 

§  99.  The  owners,  lessees,  tenants  and  managers  of  every 
blacksmith  or  other  shop,  forge,  coal-yard,  foundry,  manufactory 
and  premises  where  any  business  is  done,  shall  cause  all  ashes,  cin- 
ders, rubbish,  dirt  and  refuse  to  be  removed  to  some  proper  place, 
so  that  the  same  shall  not  accumulate  at  any  of  the  above  mentioned 
premises,  or  in  the  appurtenances  thereof,  nor  the  same  become  filthy 
or  offensive.  Nor  shall  any  smoke,  cinders,  dust,  gas  or  offensive 
odor  be  allowed  to  escape  from  any  such  building,  place  or  premises 
to  the  detriment  or  annoyance  of  any  person  not  being  therein  or 
thereupon  engaged. 

§  100.  No  vault,  privy,  sink,  cistern  or  cesspool  shall  here- 
after be  made  or  rebuilt  in  the  town,  except  in  accordance  with  the 
regulations  of  and  by  permit  of  the  department  of  health. 

§  101.  No  diseased  or  sickly  horse,  cattle,  swine,  sheep,  dog, 
or  cat,  or  other  animals,  nor  any  that  have  been  exposed  to  any  dis- 
ease that  is  contagious  among  such  animals,  shall  be  brought  into 
The  Town  of  Lake. 

§  1 02.  No  person  shall  keep,  retain  or  allow  or  employ  to 
be  kept  or  retained,  at  any  place  within  the  town,  any  horse,  ass  or 
colt,  having  the  disease  known  as  glanders  or  farcy. 

§  103.  No  person  shall  leave  in  or  throw  into  any  place  or 
street  or  public  water,  or  offensively  expose  or  bury  the  body  (or 
any  part  thereof)  of  any  dead  or  fatally  sick  or  injured  animal;  nor 
shall  any  person  keep  any  dead  animal,  or  any  offensive  meat,  bird, 
fowl  or  fish  in  a  place  where  the  same  may  be  dangerous  to  the  life, 
or  detrimental  to  the  health  of  any  person. 

§  104.  Any  animal,  being  in  any  street  or  public  place  within 
the  town,  and  appearing  in  the  estimation  of  any  police  officer 
(and  of  two  discreet  citizens,  called  by  such  officer  to  view  the 
same  in  his  presence)  injured  or  diseased  past  recovery  for  any  iss- 
ful  purpose,  and  not  being  attended  and  properly  cared  for  by  the 
owner  or  some  proper  person  to  have  charge  thereof  for  the  owner; 
or  not  having  been  removed  to  some  private  premises  or  to  some 
place  designated  by  such  officer  within  one  hour  after  being  found 
or  left  in  such  condition,  may  be  deprived  of  life  by  such  officer, 
or  as  he  may  direct,  and  shall  thereafter,  unless  at  once  removed 
by  the  owner  or  proper  person,  be  treated  as  any  other  animal  found 
on  a  street  or  place. 
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212  ORDINANCES  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE. 

^105.  Any  person  having  a  dead  animal  or  an  animal  past  recov- 
-ery,  and  not  killed  for  and  proper  for  use  as  meat  or  fish,  or  in 
an  offensive  condition,  or  sick  with  an  infectious  or  contagious  dis- 
ease on  his  premises  in  said  town,  and  every  person  whose  animal, 
or  any  animal  in  his  charge  or  under  his  control  in  any  street  or 
place,  may  die  or  become  or  be  in  a  condition  past  recovery,  shall 
at  once  remove  or  cause  the  removal  of  such  animal,  dead  or  alive, 
to  some  proper  place;  and  when  such  place  may  be  designated  bv 
the  board  of  trustees,  to  the  place  so  designated. 

^  1 06.  Every  person  having  within  his  possession  or  control  or 
upon  any  premises  occupied  or  owned  by  him,  any  dead  animal 
not  proper  for  food  and  liable  to  become  noxious  and  detrimental 
to  health,  shall  at  once  give  notice  thereof  to  the  officer  in  charge 
of  the  nearest  police  station,  and  such  officer  shall  at  once  cause 
notice  thereof  to  be  given  to  the  department  of  health. 

§  107.  No  person  other  than  the  officers  of  the  department 
of  police,  or  persons  thereto  authorized  by  contract  or  otherwise, 
shall  in  any  way  interfere  with  such  dead,  sick  or  injured  animal  in 
any  street  or  place,  and  no  person  shall  skin  or  wound  such  animal 
in  such  street  or  public  place,  unless  to  terminate  its  life  as  herein 
authorized,  except  that  the  owner  or  person  having  control  of  such 
animal  may  terminate  the  life  'thereof  in  the  presence  and  by  the 
consent  of  a  policeman. 

§  1 08.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  contractor,  scavenger  and 
person,  his  agents  and  employes,  who  has  contracted  or  under- 
taken to  remove  any  diseased  or  dead  animal,  offal,  rubbish,  garbage, 
•dirt,  street-sweepings,  night  soil  or  other  filthy,  offensive  or  noxious 
•substance,  or  is  engaged  about  any  such  removal,  or  in  loading  or  un- 
loading of  any  such  substance,  to  do  the  same  with  dispatch,  and  in 
•every  particular  in  a  manner  as  cleanly  and  little  offensive  and  with 
.as  little  danger  and  prejudice  to  life  and  health  as  possible. 

&  109.  No  street  sweepings  or  other  noxious  material  shall  be 
piled  up  or  partially  raked  together,  in  any  street  or  place  before 
the  removal  thereof,  more  than  a  reasonable  time,  nor  for  more  than 
four  hours  in  the  day-time,  under  any  circumstances. 

§  1 10.  Every  physician  shall  report  to  the  commissioner  of  health 
in  writing  every  person  having  a  contagious  or  infectious  disease, 
such  as  cholera,  yellow  fever,  scarlet  fever,  small-pox,  diphtheria,  vari- 
oloid  or  any  of  the  grades  of  such  diseases  (and  the  state  of  his  oi- 
lier disease,  and  his  or  her  place  of  dwelling  and  name  if  known), 
which  such  physician  has  prescribed  for  or  attended  for  the  first 


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time  since  having  such  disease,  during  any  part  of  the  preceding 
twenty-four  hours;  but  not  more  than  two  reports  shall  be  required 
in  one  week  concerning  the  same  person;  but  every  attending  or 
practicing  physician  thereat  must,  at  his  peril,  see  that  such  report 
is  or  has  been  made  by  some  attending  physician. 


It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  and  every  practicing  phy- 
sician ki  the  town  to  report,  in  writing,  to  the  commissioner  of 
health,  the  death  of  any  of  his  patients  who  shall  have  died  in  said 
town,  of  contagious  or  infectious  disease,  within  twenty-four  hours 
thereafter,  and  to  state  in  such  report  the  specific  name  and  type  of 
•such  disease. 

fii2.  Every  keeper  of  any  boarding-house  or  lodging-house, 
every  inn-keeper  and  hotel-keeper,  shall,  within  twenty-four 
hours,  report  in  writing  to  the  health  commissioner,  the  same  par- 
ticulars in  the  last  two  sections  required  of  any  physician  concerning 
any  person  being  at  any  of  the  aforesaid  houses  or  hotels,  and 
attacked  with  any  contagious  disease. 

§  113.  The  commissioners,  managers,  principals,  or  other  proper 
head  officer  of  each  and  every  public  or  private  institution  in  said 
town,  shall  twice  in  each  week  report  in  writing  (or  cause  such 
report  by  some  proper  and  competent  person  to  be  made  twice  in 
each  week)  to  the  health  commissioner,  and  state  therein  the  name, 
if  known,  and  condition,  and  disease,  of  any  and  every  person  being 
thereat,  and  sick  of  any  contagious  disease. 

^  114.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  knowing  of  any 
individual  in  said  town  sick  of  any  contagious  disease  (where  such 
person  shall  have  reason  to  regard  such  individual  as  neglected  or 
not  properly  cared  for,  and  to  avoid  giving  said  disease  to  others) 
and  the  duty  of  every  physician  hearing  of  any  such  sick  person, 
who  he  shall  have  reason  to  think  requires  the  attention  of  the  depart- 
ment of  health,  to  at  once  report  the  facts  to  the  health  commissioner, 
in  regard  to  the  disease,  condition  and  dwelling-place,  or  position  of 
such  sick  person. 

§  115.  The  keepers,  lessees,  tenants  and  owners  of  every  board- 
ing-house and  lodging-house,  shall  within  six  hours  after  the  fact 
shall  have  come  to  his  or  her  or  their  knowledge,  notify  the  health 
commissioner,  in  writing,  of  the  fact  of  any  sea-faring  man  or  person, 
lately  from  any  vessel,  being  taken  sick  at  such  house,  and  shall,  in 
such  notice,  state  where  such  sick  person  may  be  found. 

§  1  1  6.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  health  commissioner  to  visit 
and  examine  all  sick  persons  who  shall  be  reported  to  him  as  labor- 


214  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

ing,  or  supposed  to  be  laboring,  under  any  yellow  or  ship  fevery 
small-pox,  cholera  or  other  infectious  or  pestilential  disease,  and 
cause  all  such  infected  persons  to  be  removed  to  the  cholera,  small- 
pox or  other  hospital,  or  to  such  other  safe  and  suitable  place  as  he 
may  think  proper,  not  exceeding  three  miles  from  said  town,  and 
cause  such  person  or  persons  to  be  provided  with  suitable  nurses- 
and  medical  attendance,  at  their  own  expense  if  they  are  able  to  pay 
for  the  same,  but  if  not,  at  the  expense  of  the  town. 

§  117.  The  health  commissioner  shall  cause  a  notice,  printed  or 
written  in  large  letters,  to  be  placed  upon  or  near  any  house  in 
which  any  person  may  be  affected  or  sick  with  small-pox,  scarlet 
fever,  or  any  infectious,  pestilential  or  epidemic  disease  whatever, 
with  the  words  "  small  pox"  or  "scarlet  fever,"  or  whatever  name  the 
infectious,  pestilential  or  epidemic  disease  may  be,  and  if  any  per- 
son shall  deface,  alter,  mutilate,  destroy  or  tear  down  such  notice 
without  the  permission  of  the  health  commissioner,  such  person 
shall  be  liable  for  each  offence  to  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dol- 
lars nor  more  than  fifty  dollars.  The  occupant  of  any  house  upon 
which  such  notice  shall  be  placed  or  posted  as  aforesaid,  shall  be 
held  responsible  for  the  removal  of  the  same,  and  if  the  same  shall 
be  removed  without  the  consent  of  the  health  commissioner,  such 
occupant  shall  be  subject  to  the  like  fine,  of  not  less  than  ten  dol- 
lars nor  more  than  fifty  dollars,  unless  he  shall  notify  the  health 
commissioner  within  twenty-four  hours  after  the  removal  of  said 
notice. 

§  118.  The  health  commissioner  may  in  his  discretion  effect  or 
cause  to  be  effected  the  thorough  disinfection  of  any  house  or  prem- 
ises where  any  case  of  cholera,  yellow  fever,  scarlet  fever,  small- 
pox, or  any  other  infectious  or  contagious  disease  may  have  occurred: 
Provided  such  disinfection  or  fumigation  shall  be  made  within  five 
days  from  the  termination  of  such  disease. 

§  119.  No  person  shall  bring  into  this  town,  from  any  in- 
fected place,  or  from  any  building  in  which  had  lately  been  any 
person  sick  of  a  contagious  disease,  any  article  or  person  what- 
soever, nor  shall  any  such  person  come  into  said  town  without  a 
permit  of  the  department  of  health;  and  it  shall  be  no  excuse  that 
such  person  or  article  so  offending,  or  the  occasion  of  offense,  has 
passed  through  quarantine,  or  has  a  permit  from  any  other  source 
than  said  department. 

§  1 20.  No  person  shall  within  the  town  without  a  permit 
from  the  health  commissioner,  carry  or  remove  from  one  building 


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to  another  any  person  sick  of  any  contagious  disease.  Nor  shall 
any  person  by  any  exposure  of  any  individual  sick  of  any  conta- 
gious disease,  or  of  the  body  of  such  person,  or  by  any  negligent 
act  connected  therewith  or  in  respect  of  the  care  or  custody  thereof, 
or  by  a  needless  exposure  of  himself,  cause  or  contribute  to  or  pro- 
mote the  spread  of  disease  from  any  such  person  or  from  any  dead 
body. 

§  121.  Every  person,  being  the  parent  or  guardian,  or  hav- 
ing the  care,  custody,  or  control  of  any  minor  or  other  individual, 
shall  (to  the  extent  of  any  means,  power  and  authority  of  said  parent, 
guardian  or  other  person,  that  could  properly  be  used  or  exerted 
for  such  purpose),  cause  and  procure  such  minor  or  individual  to  be 
so  promptly,  frequently  and  effectively  vaccinated,  that  such  minor 
or  individual  shall  not  take  or  be  liable  to  take  the  small-pox. 

§  122.  No  parent,  master  or  custodian  of  any  child  or  minor, 
(having  the  power  and  authority  to  prevent),  shall  permit  any  such 
child  or  minor  to  be  unnecessarily  exposed,  or  to  needlessly  expose 
any  other  person  to  the  taking  or  to  the  infection  of  any  contagious 
disease. 

§  123.  No  principal  of  any  school,  and  no  principal  or  teacher 
of  any  private  sectarian  or  other  school,  shall  admit  to  any  such 
school  any  child  or  minor  who  shall  not  have  been  vaccinated 
within  seven  years  next  preceding  the  admission  or  application  for 
admission  to  any  such  school  of  such  child  or  minor;  nor  shall  any 
such  principal  or  teacher  retain  in  or  permit  to  attend  any  such 
school  any  child  or  minor  who  shall  not  have  been  vaccinated  within 
seven  years  next  preceding  the  taking  effect  of  this  chapter. 

§  124.  The  evidence  of  such  vaccination  to  be  presented  to  any 
such  principal  or  teacher  as  is  mentioned  in  the  preceding  section 
shall  be  a  certificate  signed  by  the  health  commissioner  or  any 
physician  duly  licensed  by  the  state  board  of  health. 

§  125.  The  health  commissioner  is  hereby  empowered  to  visit 
any  and  all  public  and  private  schools  in  the  town,  and  to  make  or 
cause  to  be  made  an  examination  of  the  children  and  minors  in  attend- 
ance therein,  as  often  as  he  may  deem  necessary  to  secure  compli- 
ance with  the  provisions  hereof. 

§  126.  Any  principal  of  a  public  school,  or  principal  or  teacher 
of  any  private  or  other  school,  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  pro- 
visions of  section  123,  or  shall  in  any  way  prevent  or  attempt  to 
prevent  the  health  commissioner  from  exercising  the  power  con- 
ferred on  him  by  section  125,  shall  be  fined  for  each  offense  not 
less  than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 


2l6  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE, 

§127.  The  board  of  trustees  may  take  such  measures  as  they 
may  from  time  to  time  deem  necessary  to  prevent  the  spread  of 
small-pox  or  other  pestilential  or  infectious  disease,  and  may  issue 
orders  requiring  all  persons  in  the  town,  or  any  part  thereof,  to  be 
vaccinated  within  such  time  as  they  shall  prescribe:  Provided,  that 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  to  provide  for  the  vaccination  of 
such  persons  as  are  unable  to  pay  for  the  same  at  the  expense  of 
the  town. 

§  128.  No  person  shall  retain,  expose  or  allow  to  be  retained 
or  exposed  the  dead  body  of  any  human  being,  to  the  peril  or  prej- 
udice of  the  life  or  health  of  any  person. 

£  129.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  who  has  discov- 
ered or  seen  the  body  of  a  dead  human  being,  or  any  part  thereof 
(if  there  is  reason  for  such  person  to  think  that  the  fact  of  the  death, 
or  the  place  of  such  body  or  part  thereof  is  not  publicly  known),  to 
immediately  communicate  to  the  department  of  health  the  fact  of 
such  discovery  of  such  body,  the  place  where  and  time  when  the 
same  was  discovered  or  seen,  and  where  the  same  is  or  may  be 
found,  and  any  facts  known  by  which  said  body  may  be  identified 
or  the  cause  of  death  ascertained. 

§  1 30.  Every  physician,  midwife,  or  other  person,  who  may  pro- 
fessionally assist  or  advise  at  any  death  occurring  in  The  Town  of 
Lake,  shall  make  a  report  of  such  death  to  the  health  commissioner,, 
such  as  is  now  required  by  the  state  board  of  health,  to  be  made  to 
the  county  clerk;  such  report  shall  be  made  within  twenty-four 
hours  after  such  death  shall  occur.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
health  commissioner  to  transmit  the  returns  of  deaths  aforesaid  to 
the  county  clerk  within  the  time  now  prescribed  by  law. 

§  131.  No  remains  of  any  human  being  having  died  within  the 
corporate  limits  of  the  town,  or  whose  body  ma}^  have  been  found 
therein,  shall  be  removed  from  this  town  for  interment  or  otherwise, 
nor  shall  such  remains  be  interred  within  the  town,  until  the  certifi- 
cate as  required  by  section  130  of  this  chapter  shall  have  been  tiled 
at  the  office  of  the  commissioner  of  health,  and  a  permit  first  had 
and  obtained  for  such  removal  or  interment. 

§  132.  Any  superintendent  of  any  cemetery,  public  or  private, 
who  shall  receive  for  deposit  or  interment,  or  any  person  wrho  act- 
ing as  undertaker  or  otherwise  shall  assist  in  the  removing  or  inter- 
ment of  the  body  of  any  person  who  has  died,  or  been  found  dead, 
within  the  corporate  limits  of  the  town,  unless  the  permit  provided 
for  in  section  131  shall  have  been  first  obtained,  shall  be  subject  to- 


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a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  and  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars  for 
each  offense. 

§  133.  There  shall  not  be  a  public  or  church  funeral  of  any  person 
who  has  died  of  small-pox,  yellow  fever,  scarlet  fever,  diphtheria  , 
cholera,  or  any  other  contagious  or  infectious  disease,  but  the  funeral 
of  such  person  shall  be  private,  and  it  shall  not  be  lawful  to  invite  to, 
or  permit  at  the  funeral  of  any  person  who  has  died  of  any  of  the 
above  named  diseases,  or  of  any  contagious  or  pestilential  disease,  or 
at  any  services  connected  therewith,  any  person  whose  attendance  is 
not  necessary,  or  to  whom  there  is  danger  of  contagion  thereby. 

§  134.  No  person  shall  take,  carry,  expose,  or  place  or  in- 
duce any  other  person  so  to  do,  in  or  upon  any  street  or  public 
place  any  substance,  animal  or  thing  which  shall  imperil  the  health 
of  any  person  who  is  or  may  properly  be  in  such  street  or  place. 

§  135.  All  cesspools  and  privy  vaults  shall  be  water  tight,, 
and  when  on  lots  adjacent  to  sewers  shall  be  connected  with  the 
same,  in  the  manner  required  by  the  regulations  of  the  department 
of  public  works. 

§  136.  If  any  person  shall  erect  or  continue  any  privy  forty  feet 
from  any  street,  or  the  dwelling,  shop,  or  well  of  any  other  person, 
unless  the  same  shall  be  furnished  with  a  suitable  vault  six  feet 
deep,  and  made  tight,  so  the  contents  cannot  escape  therefrom,  and 
sufficiently  secured  and  enclosed,  he  shall  incur  a  penalty  of  ten  dol- 
lars, and  a  like  penalty  for  every  week  he  shall  continue  the  same 
after  the  first  conviction. 

§  137.  No  person  owning  or  occupying  any  building  or  prem- 
ises shall  use  the  same,  or  permit  the  use  of  the  same,  or  rent 
the  same  to  be  used  for  any  business  or  employment,  or  for  any 
purpose  of  pleasure  or  recreation,  if  such  use  shall,  from  its  bois- 
terous nature,  disturb  or  destroy  the  peace  of  the  neighborhood  in 
which  such  building  or  premises  are  situated,  or  be  dangerous  or 
detrimental  to  health. 

§  13*8.  No  person  shall  bring  into  the  town  or  keep  therein 
for  sale  or  otherwise,  either  for  food  or  for  any  other  purpose,  or 
purposes  whatever,  any  animal,  dead  or  alive,  matter,  substance  or 
things,  which  shall  be,  or  which  shall  occasion  a  nuisance  in  said 
town,  or  which  may  or  shall  be  dangerous  or  detrimental  to  health- 

§  139.  No  building,  vehicle,  structure,  receptacle,  or  thing,  used 
or  to  be  used  for  any  purpose  whatever,  shall  be  made,  used,  kept, 
maintained  or  operated,  in  the  town,  if  the  use,  keeping,  maintain- 


2l8  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

ing  or  operating  of  such  building,  vehicle,  structure,  receptacle  or 
thing,  shall  be  the  occasion  of  any  nuisance,  or  dangerous  or  detri- 
mental to  health. 

§  140.  No  substance,  matter  or  thing,  of  any  kind  whatever, 
which  shall  be  dangerous  or  detrimental  to  health,  shall  be  per- 
mitted to  exist  in  connection  with  any  permitted  business,  or  be  used 
therein,  or  to  exist  in  connection  therewith,  or  to  be  used  in  any  work 
or  labor,  carried  on  or  to  be  carried  on  or  prosecuted  in  the  town, 
and  no  nuisance  shall  be  permitted  to  exist  in  connection  with  any 
business,  or  in  connection  with  any  such  work  or  labor. 

§  141.  Any  person  who  violates,  disobeys,  omits,  neglects,  or 
refuses  to  comply  with,  or  who  resists  any  of  the  provisions  of 
this  chapter,  or  who  refuses  or  neglects  to  obey  any  of  the  rules, 
orders,  or  sanitary  regulations  of  the  department  of  health,  or  who 
omits,  neglects  or  refuses  to  comply  with  or  who  resists  any  officer, 
or  order,  or  special  regulation  of  said  department  of  health,  shall 
upon  conviction,  be  subject  to  a  fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred 
dollars,  nor  less  than  five  dollars,  for  each  offense. 


CHAPTER     XLI. 


HORSES. 

SECTION  i.  No  person  shall  ride  or  drive  any  horse  or  horses 
or  other  animal  in  The  Town  of  Lake  with  greater  speed  than  at  the 
rate  of  six  miles  an  hour,  under  the  penalty  of  ten  dollars  for  each 
offense,  to  be  recovered  from  the  owner  or  driver  thereof  severally 
and  respectively. 

§  2.  No  person,  upon  turning  the  corner  of  any  street  or 
crossing  the  intersection  of  any  street  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  shall 
ride  or  drive  any  horse  or  horses  or  other  animal  with  greater 
speed  than  at  the  rate  of  four  miles  an  hour,  under  the  penalty  of 
ten  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  3.  No  person  shall  ride  or  drive  any  horse  or  horses  or 
other  animal  in  or  through  any  alley  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  or  at 
the  time  of  issuing  from  or  quitting  such  alley,  with  a  greater  rate 
of  speed  than  a  walk,  under  the  penalty  of  ten  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  4.  No  horse  shall  be  suffered  or  permitted  to  go  loose  or  at 
large  in  any  of  the  streets  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  under  the  penalty 


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of  ten  dollars  for  every  such  offense,  to  be  paid  by  the  owner  or 
person  having  the  care,  charge,  or  keeping  thereof  severally  and 
respectivelv. 

^  5.  No  person  shall  suffer  or  permit  to  go,  or  lead,  or  ride 
or  drive  any  horse  upon  any  sidewalk  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  under 
the  penaltv  of  five  dollars  for  each  offense,  to  be  paid  by  the  owner 
or  person  having  the  care,  charge  or  keeping  thereof  severally  and 
respectively 

^  6.  No  person  shall  run  or  race  any  horse  in  any  public 
street,  road  or  avenue  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  nor  shall  consent  to 
or  suffer  such  racing,  under  the  penalty  of  ten  dollars,  to  be  re- 
covered from  the  person  or  persons  who  shall  so  race,  or  suffer  or 
permit  such  racing,  and  the  owner,  rider  and  the  person  having 
charge  of  any  animal  which  shall  so  race  and  run  severally  and 
respectively- 

§  7.  The  last  preceding  section  of  this  chapter  shall  be  con- 
strued to  prevent  and  punish  the  running,  racing,  or  trotting  of  any 
horse  or  horses  for  any  trial  of  speed,  or  for  the  purpose  of  passing 
any  other  horse  or  horses,  whether  the  same  be  founded  upon  any 
stake,  bet  or  otherwise. 

£  8.  No  person  shall  show  or  expose  for  sale  at  auction  any 
horse  or  other  animal  in  any  street,  alley  or  avenue  in  The  Town  of 
Lake,  under  the  penalty  of  five  dollars  for  every  such  offense. 

§  9.  No  person  shall  leave  any  horse,  horses  or  other  animal 
attached  to  any  carriage,  wagon,  cart,  sleigh,  sled  or  other  vehicle 
in  any  part  of  the  streets,  avenues,  alleys  or  lanes  of  this  town,  with- 
out securely  fastening  such  horse,  horses  or  other  animal,  under  a 
penalty  for  each  offense  Of  not  less  than  two  dollars. 


CHAPTER     XLII. 


HORSE    RAILROADS. 


SECTION  i.  The  gauge  of  all  horse  railroads  in  The  Town  of 
Lake,  now  laid  or  hereafter  to  be  laid,  is  hereby  fixed  at  four  feet 
ei^ht  and  one  half  inches. 

§  2.  All  rails  which  shall  hereafter  be  laid  on  any  horse  railroad 
track  on  the  streets,  alleys  or  other  public  grounds  of  The  Town 


22O  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

of  Lake  shall  be  a  tram  rail,  having  a  profile  taken  crosswise  of  the 
rail,  such  as  is  shown  on  the   sketch  following,  marked  "A": 


3  IN 


The  width  of  said  rail  from  outside  to  outside  shall  be  five 
inches;  the  width  of  the  tram  shall  be  three  inches  horizontal; 
the  height  along  the  wagon  edge,  or  the  height  from  the  tram  to 
the  highest  part  of  the  rail,  shall  not  be  more  than  seven-eighths 
of  an  inch;  the  upper  part  of  the  rail  shall  be  laid  below  the  level 
of  the  surface  of  the  street,  and  the  whole  manner  of  constructing 
said  railways,  so  as  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  this  chapter, 
shall  be  under  the  direction  of  the  superintendent  of  public  works. 

§  3.  Said  companies  shall  keep  the  tracks  of  their  respective 
roads  in  such  a  condition  that  said  tracks  shall  not  at  any  time  be 
elevated  above  the  surface  of  the  streets  on  which  they  are  laid,  so 
that  vehicles  can  easily  and  freely  at  all  times  cross  said  tracks  at 
all  points,  in  any  direction,  without  obstruction;  they  shall  also- 
keep  in  good  repair  such  portions  of  the  streets  as  they  severally 
have  agreed  or  may  agree  with  said  town  so  to  do. 

§  4.  Either  of  said  companies  who  shall  neglect  or  fail  to  put 
their  track  or  tracks  or  part  of  track  or  tracks,  or  any  portion  of 
the  streets,  in  the  condition  required  by  section  3,  within  five  days 
after  the  service  of  a  notice  from  the  supervisor  of  The  Town  of 
Lake  so  to  do,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  not  less  than  fifty  dollars  and 
not  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  every  day  such  neglect  or 
failure  shall  continue  after  the  expiration  of  said  five  days;  and  the 
said  supervisor  shall  report  every  such  case  to  the  town  attorney, 
who  shall  immediately  prosecute  the  offending  company  to  judgment 
and  execution  before  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction. 

§  5.  The  cars  shall  have  the  right  to  the  tracks  as  against  any 
person,  carriage,  vehicle  or  incumbrance  put,  driven  or  being  thereon 
with  a  view  to  delay  or  embarrass  the  progress  of  the  cars;  and  no 
person  shall  obstruct  the  said  tracks,  or  obstruct  or  prevent  the  cars 
from  running  or  progressing  thereon  by  placing,  driving  or  stopping 
or  causing  to  be  driven  at  a  slow  pace  or  stopped,  any  vehicle  or 
other  obstacle  in,  upon,  across,  along  or  near  said  tracks  in  the  way 
of  any  car,  if  there  shall  be  an  opportunity  to  turn  oft',  after  being 
notified  by  the  ringing  of  the  car  bell,  under  a  penalty  of  five  dollars. 

§  6.     Cars  stopping    at    a  street  intersection  shall    stop  at  the 


HORSE    RAILROADS ICE.  221 

further  walk  thereof,  so  that  the  cars  shall  not,  when  stopped,  inter- 
fere with  the  travel  on  cross  streets;  and,  subject  to  the  foregoing 
provision  of  this  section,  all  street  cars  shall  stop  to  receive  and  to 
let  off  passengers  wherever  they  are  desired  to  do  so;  excepting 
between  the  hours  of  six  o'clock  and  eight  o'clock  A.  M.  and  five 
o'clock  and  seven  o'clock  p.  M.,  during  which  hours  they  may  regulate 
their  stopping  by  the  first  provision  of  this  section.  Each  team  of 
horses  hitched  to  a  street  car  shall  have  a  bell  or  bells  attached  to 
them. 

§  7.  The  said  companies,  when  no  other  or  different  penalty  is 
herein  provided,  shall  be  liable  to  a  penalty  of  fifty  dollars  for  any 
violation  on  their  part  of  any  provision  of  this  chapter;  and  any  con- 
ductor, driver  or  other  person  violating  any  provision  of  this  chapter, 
when  no  other  or  different  penalty  is  herein  provided,  shall  be  liable 
to  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  police  to  enforce  the  provisions  of  this  chapter. 


CHAPTER     XLIII. 


ICE. 

SECTION  i.  No  person  shall  sell  or  offer  or  expose  for  sale  any 
impure  ice  within  the  limits  of  the  town;  and  all  ice  sold,  offered  or 
exposed  for  sale  shall  be  sold  by  avoirdupois  weight,  except  in  such 
cases  where  it  may  be  otherwise  agreed  upon  between  the  buyer 
and  the  seller. 

§  2.  All  sellers  of  ice  at  the  time  of  the  delivery  thereof  shal 
be  provided  with  a  suitable  steelyard,  balance,  or  other  apparatus 
for  weighing,  duly  adjusted  and  sealed  by  the  sealer  of  weights 
and  measures,  with  which  to  weigh  the  quantity  of  ice  sold,  if 
required  by  the  buyer. 

§  3.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  the  owner  or  driver  of  any 
wagon  used  for  the  sale  of  ice  in  any  of  the  streets,  avenues  or 
public  places  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  to  permit  or  allow  the  scales,  bal- 
ance, steelyard  or  other  apparatus  thereon,  or  the  beam  to  which 
it  may  be  attached,  or  other  implements  for  handling  ice,  to  project 
or  hang  outside  or  beyond  the  side  or  end  of  such  wagon  when  in 
motion. 

§  4.  Any  person  violating  any  provision  of  this  chapter  shall  be 
subject  to  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  for  each  offense. 


222  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 


CHAPTER     XLIV. 


INTELLIGENCE    OFFICES. 

SECTION  i.  Any  person  who  shall  establish  or  keep  any  office  or 
place  within  The  Town  of  Lake,  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  place 
or  employment  for  male  or  female  family  domestics,  servants  or 
other  laborers,  or  for  procuring  or  giving  information  concerning 
such  places  for  or  to  such  domestics,  servants  or  laborers,  or  for 
procuring  or  giving  information  concerning  such  domestics,  servants 
or  laborers  for  or  to  employers,  shall  be  deemed  a  keeper  of  an 
intelligence  office. 

§  2.  The  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  shall  from  time  to 
time  issue  licenses  to  so  many  and  such  persons  as  he  shall  think 
proper,  to  keep  intelligence  offices  in  this  town,  and  shall  have 
power  to  revoke  all  or  any  of  the  said  licenses  at  pleasure. 

§  3.  Each  license  shall  designate  the  house  in  which  the  per- 
son licensed  shall  keep  his  office,  and  the  number  of  such  license, 
and  shall  continue  and  be  in  force  until  the  last  day  of  June  next 
ensuing  the  date  thereof,  and  no  longer,  unless  sooner  revoked  by 
the  president. 

§  4.  Every  person  who  may  be  licensed  under  and  by  virtue 
of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  shall  pay  to  the  town  treasurer,  for 
the  use  of  the  town,  the  sum  of  twenty-five  dollars,  and  execute  a 
bond  to  the  town  with  sureties  to  be  approved  by  the  president, 
in  the  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars,  conditioned  for  the  faithful 
observance  of  all  the  ordinances  of  the  town. 

§  5.  No  person  shall  keep  any  intelligence  office  in  The  Town 
of  Lake  without  having  such  license,  as  aforesaid,  or  after  the 
same  shall  have  been  revoked,  or  shall  have  expired,  or  at  any 
other  house  or  place  than  is  designated  in  such  license,  under  the 
penalty  of  fifty  dollars  for  every  such  offense. 

§  6.  Any  person  keeping  an  intelligence  office  as  aforesaid, 
who  shall  directly  or  indirectly  or  through  any  agent  or  other  per- 
son or  persons  make  use  of  any  improper  device,  deceit,  false  rep- 
resentation, false  pretense  or  any  imposition  whatsoever  for  any 


INTELLIGENCE    OFFICES LICENSES.  223 

improper  purpose,  or  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  a  fee,  money* 
gratuity  or  other  thing  of  value  from  any  customer,  person  or  per- 
sons, or  patron  or  patrons  shall,  on  conviction,  be  fined  in  a  sum  not 
less  than  twenty  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 


CHAPTER     XLV 


LICENSES. 

SECTION  i.  All  licenses  shall  be  granted  by  the  board  of  trus- 
tees, from  time  to  time,  to  such  persons  as  they  may  deem  proper, 
residents  of  The  Town  of  Lake. 

^  2.  Each  and  every  license  authorized  and  required  by  this 
ordinance,  and  granted  by  the  board,  shall  be  issued  by  the  town 
clerk,  on  notice  to  him  from  the  town  treasurer  that  the  license  fee 
or  tax  has  been  paid,  and  not  otherwise. 

§  3.  All  licenses  shall  be  subject  to  the  ordinances  and  regu- 
lations which  may  be  in  force  at  the  time  of  issuing  thereof,  or 
which  may  subsequently  be  made  by  the  board  of  trustees;  and  if 
any  person  so  licensed  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  thereof,  he 
shall  be  liable  to  be  proceeded  against  for  any  fine  or  penalty  im- 
posed thereby,  and  his  license  may  be  revoked  in  the  discretion  of 
the  board. 

§  4.  No  license  granted  under  this  ordinance  shall  be  assign- 
able or  transferable  without  permission  of  the  board  of  trustees,  nor 
shall  any  such  license  authorize  any  person  to  do  business  or  act 
under  it  but  the  person  named  therein,  except  as  is  in  this  ordinance 
otherwise  provided. 

§  5.  No  license  shall  be  granted  for  a  longer  period  than  one 
year,  and  every  license  shall  expire  on  the  last  day  of  June  next 
following.  Every  license  shall  be  signed  by  the  president  of  the 
board  and  countersigned  by  the  clerk  under  the  corporate  seal. 

§  6.  In  all  cases  where  it  is  not  otherwise  expressly  provided, 
the  president  of  the  board  shall  have  power  to  hear  and  grant  appli- 
cations for  licenses  upon  the  terms  specified  by  this  ordinance;  and 


224  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

all  licenses  shall  be  issued  to  such  person  or  persons  as  shall  comply 
in  all  respects  with  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  and  as  the  presi- 
dent of  the  board  in  his  discretion  shall  deem  suitable  and  proper 
persons  to  be  licensed. 

4|  7.  The  town  treasurer  shall  receipt  for  all  moneys  for  any 
licenses  that  may  be  granted  under  the  authority  of  said  town  upon 
any  account  whatever;  his  receipt  shall  be  a  discharge  to  the  per- 
son to  whom  given,  to  the  extent  and  purport  thereof,  but  no  person 
.shall  be  deemed  to  be  licensed  in  any  case  until  the  issuing  of  the 
license  in  due  form  as  herein  required. 

§  8.  Whenever  it  shall  appear  from  the  license  register  kept 
t>y  the  clerk,  or  the  books  of  the  treasurer,  that  any  person  holding 
any  license  or  permit  of  any  kind  or  privilege  granted  by  the  town, 
has  failed  to  pay  the  amount  due  thereon  or  other  kind  of  penalty, 
license,  fine,  debt  or  liability  whatever,  the  clerk  or  treasurer,  as  the 
case  may  be,  shall  report  the  fact  to  the  president,  whose  duty  it- 
shall  be  promptlv  to  revoke  said  license,  permit  or  privilege. 

§  9.  Any  person  or  persons  to  whom  any  license  may  have  been 
issued  under  any  ordinance  of  the  board  of  trustees,  may  with  the 
permission  of  the  president  assign  and  transfer  the  same  to  any  other 
person  or  persons,  and  the  person  or  persons  to  whom  such  license  is 
issued  or  the  assignee  or  assignees  of  such  license,  may  with  the 
permission  of  the  president  surrender  such  license,  and  have  a  new 
license  issued  for  the  unexpired  term  of  the  old  license,  authorizing 
the  person  or  persons  so  surrendering  such  license  to  carry  on  the 
same  business  or  occupation  at  such  place  as  may  be  named  in  such 
new  license:  Provided,  that  in  all  cases  the  party  applying  for  such 
new  license  shall  give  a  bond  with  sureties  which  shall  conform 
as  near  as  may  be  to  the  bond  upon  which  such  surrendered  license 
was  issued. 

§  io.  When  any  license  is  issued  after  the  first  day  of  July,  in  any 
_year,  the  same  shall  be  issued  to  the  person  applying  therefor  upon  his 
paying  therefor  the  number  of  twelfth  parts  of  the  sum  fixed  for  a 
yearly  license  equal  to  the  number  of  months  which  will  elapse  be- 
tween the  date  of  the  application  for  the  license  and  the  day  when 
under  this  chapter  said  license  is  made  to  expire :  Provided,  however, 
that  in  determining  the  price  to  be  paid,  the  month  in  which  the 
application  is  made  shall  be  counted  and  included  in  the  number  of 
months  to  elapse :  and  provided,  further,  that  no  person  shall  be 
entitled  to  the  benefit  of  this  section  who  shall  be  engaged  in  the 
business  for  which  he  applies  for  a  license  at  the  time  of  his  applica- 
tion. 


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CHAPTER     XLVI. 


MARKETS. 

SECTION  i .  No  person  shall  sell,  offer  or  expose  for  sale  any  fresh 
•meat,  excepting  venison,  poultry,  fish  or  wild  game,  in  any  quantity 
in  The  Town  of  Lake,  without  having  first  obtained  a  license  as  pro- 
vided in  this  ordinance,  under  the  penalty  of  ten  dollars  for  each 
offense :  Provided,  that  nothing  herein  shall  prohibit  any  person  from 
selling  beef  or  other  fresh  meat  by  the  quarter,  or  any  greater 
quantity,  at  any  time  or  place  in  the  said  town,  the  same  being  the 
produce  of  his  own  farm  or  raising. 

§  2.  No  person  shall  between  the  first  day  of  May  and  the 
first  day  of  November  in  any  year,  bring  into  or  place  or  suffer  or 
permit  to  be  brought  into  or  placed  in  any  market  or  licensed  stall, 
any  untried  fat,  commonly  called  "  gut  fat,"  nor  at  any  time  or 
season  the  heads,  shanks  or  feet  of  any  animal  unless  the  same  be 
skinned  or  properly  cleaned,  nor  any  green  hides  or  skins  of  any 
kind  except  the  hides  of  calves,  under  the  penalty  of  five  dollars  for 
each  offense. 

§  3.  All  meats  sold  at  the  markets  or  licensed  stalls,  except- 
ing shanks,  offal,  heads  and  plucks,  poultry  or  wild  game,  shall:  be 
sold  by  weight  and  be  weighed  in  a  scale,  by  weights  or  a  beam, 
properly  sealed;  and  in  case  any  fraud  shall  be  committed  in  the 
weight  of  any  meat,  and  in  case  any  meat  excepting  as  aforesaid 
shall  be  sold  without  being  weighed  as  herein  directed,  the  person 
selling  the  same  shall  forfeit  the  sum  of  five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  4.  The  president  shall  from  time  to  time  grant  licenses  under 
his  hand  and  the  seal  of  said  town,  to  exercise  and  carry  on  the  busi- 
ness of  butchers  in  such  places  as  may  be  designated  in  such  licenses 
but  not  elsewhere. 

§  5.  For  every  license  so  granted,  the  sum  of  ten  dollars  shall 
be  paid  to  the  town  treasurer  by  the  party  to  whom  it  is  granted, 
and  before  issuing  the  same. 

§  6.  Every  butcher  or  other  person  shall  keep  his  cellar  and 
stall  neat  and  free  from  filth  of  all  kinds,  under  a  penalty  of  five 


226  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

dollars;  and  members  of  the  department  of  health  shall  at  all  times- 
have  free  access  thereto,  under  the  penalty  of  five  dollars,  to  be  paid 
by  the  butcher  or  other  person  who  shall  refuse  or  prevent  such 
access. 

» 

§  7.  No  butcher  or  other  person  shall  sweep  or  deposit  any 
dirt  or  filth  of  any  description  in  or  upon  the  public  passage  way  or 
ways  in  such  market  or  cellars,  or  in  or  upon  the  market  grounds 
or  streets  adjacent  to  said  market.  Any  person  violating  the  pro- 
visions hereof  shall  upon  conviction  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less 
than  ten  dollars. 

§  8.  Any  person  who  shall  kill  or  dress  any  animal  in  or  near 
any  market,  or  who  shall  throw  or  permit  any  brine,  bones,  filth, 
slops,  oftal,  water  or  other  liquid  or  other  substances  to  be  thrown 
out  of  the  doors  or  windows,  or  around  or  near  any  market  house, 
or  any  licensed  stall,  except  in  places  which  may  be  provided  for  the 
purpose,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor 
exceeding  twenty  dollars. 

§  9.     The  word  "  butcher,"  in  the  sense  used  in  this  chapter,  is 
hereby  defined  to  mean  a  vendor  of  meats. 


CHAPTER     XLVII. 


MISDEMEANORS. 

SECTION  i.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  have  in  his 
possession  any  nippers  of  the  description  known  as  burglar's  nippers, 
pick  lock,  skeleton  key,  key  to  be  used  with  a  bit  or  bits,  jimmey, 
or  other  burglar's  instrument  or  tool  of  whatsoever  kind  or  descrip- 
tion, unless  it  be  shown  that  such  possession  is  innocent  or  for  a 
lawful  purpose,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  one  hundred 
dollars. 

&  2.  No  person  shall  engage  in  any  game,  sport,  amusement, 
or  exhibit  any  machine,  or  show,  or  any  animal,  or  indulge  in  any 
acrobatic  feats,  or  do  anything  else  in  the  streets  or  upon  the  side- 


r  MISDEMEANORS.  227 

walks  which  shall  have  a  tendency  to  frighten  horses,  or  which  shall 
collect  any  crowd  of  persons  so  as  to  interfere  with  the  passage  of 
teams  or  vehicles,  or  persons  passing  along  the  streets  and  sidewalks ; 
and  any  person  who  shall  do  any  of  these  things  shall  be  fined  not 
less  than  three  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  and  every 
offense. 

§  3.  No  person  shall  wantonly  mar,  injure,  deface  or  destroy 
any  fence,  guide  post,  sign  board  or  awning  in  any  street  or  public 
place  in  the  town,  under  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  for 
each  ofFense. 

§  4.  No  person  shall  throw,  cast  or  put  into,  drop  or  leave  in 
any  street,  alley,  lane,  public  place  or  any  uninclosed  public  grounds 
in  The  Town  of  Lake,  any  stone,  missiles,  nails,  ice,  glass,  iron  or 
any  other  metal,  or  any  straw,  paper,  parings  of  fruit  or  vegetables, 
or  any  other  article  or  thing,  except  ashes  on  unpaved  streets  or 
alleys,  by  which  horses,  mules  or  other  quadrupeds  shall  or  may  be 
injured  or  endangered,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars 
nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  5.  No  person  shall  stop  or  obstruct  the  passage  of  the  water 
of  any  street,  gutter  or  public  sewer,  culvert,  water  pipe  or  hydrant 
laid  or  placed  by  the  town,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  five 
dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  6.  No  person  shall  cut,  injure,  mark  or  deface  any  public 
building  belonging  to  the  town,  or  any  station  house  or  engine  house, 
or  any  tree,  grass  or  shrub  or  walk  in  any  square  or  public  park, 
or  any  sewer,  water  pipe  or  hydrant  laid  or  placed  by  the  town, 
under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  7.  No  person  shall  rise  or  fly  or  attempt  to  rise  or  fly  any  kite 
in  any  street  or  other  public  place  in  the  town,  under  the  penalty  of 
five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  8.  No  person  shall  throw  or  cast  any  stone  or  other  missile 
in,  from  or  to  any  street,  public  place  or  enclosed  ground,  under  the 
penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  9.  No  person  shall  paste,  post,  paint,  print  or  nail  any  hand 
bill,  sign,  poster,  advertisement  or  notice  of  any  kind  on  any  curb- 
stone, flagstone  or  any  other  portion  or  part  of  any  sidewalk,  or 
upon  any  tree,  lamp  post,  hitching  post,  telegraph  pole,  hydrant,  or 
upon  any  private  wall,  door,  or  gate,  or  fence  (without  the  consent 
in  writing  of  the  owner  of  such  wall,  door,  gate  or  fence),  under  the 
penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each  and  every  offense. 
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ORDINANCES  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE.       *       » 

^  10.  No  person  being  the  owner,  lessee  or  agent  of  any  building 
in  this  town,  shall  erect  or  maintain  or  permit  to  be  erected  or 
maintained  on  or  about  the  stairway  in  or  the  entrance  to  such  build- 
ing, or  on  or  about  its  exterior  building  line,  or  upon  any  portion  of 
the  sidewalk  adjacent  to  such  building,  any  railing,  fence,  guard  or 
protection  of  any  kind,  upon  which  said,  railing,  fence,  guard  or  other 
protection  there  shall  be  affixed  or  placed  or  in  any  manner  attached 
anv  spike,  nail  or  other  pointed  instrument  of  any  kind  or  descrip- 
tion, under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  t \venty-five  dollars  for  each 
offense;  and  each  and  every  day  any  such  person  shall  fail  or  neglect 
to  remove  from  such  railing,  fence  or  other  protection,  any  such 
spike,  nail  or  other  pointed  instrument,  after  notice  in  writing  from 
the  supervisor  so  to  do,  shall  constitute  a  new,  separate  and  distinct 
offense. 

^  ii.  No  person  shall  throw,  cast,  lay  or  place  on  any  sidewalk 
in  *The  Town  of  Lake,  the  rind  or  peel  of  any  orange,  banana,  apple 
or  other  fruit,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  two  dollars  for  each 
offense. 

^12.  No  person  shall  obstruct  or  encumber  any  street  corner, 
or  other  public  place  of  the  town  by  lounging  in  or  about  the  same ; 
and  after  being  requested  to  move  on  by  any  police  officer,  the  per- 
son so  offending  shall  be  subject  to  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  two 
dollars  for  each  offense. 

813.  No  person  shall  dig,  cut  or  remove  anv  sod  or  earth  from 
anv  street  or  other  public  place  within  the  town  without  a  permit 
from  the  supervisor,  or  from  any  premises  not  his  own  without  the 
consent  of  the  owner,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars 
for  each  offense. 

&  14.  All  idle  persons  who  not  having  visible  means  of  support 
live  without  lawful  employment :  all  persons  habitually  idly  loitering 
about  or  wandering  abroad  and  visiting  or  staying  about  groceries, 
drinking  saloons,  houses  of  bad  repute,  gambling  houses  or  railroad 
depots,  or  lodging  in  out-houses,  market  places,  sheds,  barns  or  in  the 
open  air,  and  not  giving  a  good  account  of  themselves:  all  persons 
wandering  abroad  and  begging,  or  who  go  about  from  door  to  door 
or  place  themselves  in  the  streets  or  other  public  places  to  beg  or 
receive  alms,  shall  be  deemed  vagrants,  and  upon  conviction  shall  be 
fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  exceeding  one  hundred 
dollars. 

&  15.  No  person  shall  indecently  exhibit  any  stud  horse  or  bull, 
or  let  any  such  horse  to  any  mare  or  mares,  or  any  bull  to  any  cow 


.M1SDKMKANORS.  22p 

or  cows  within  the  limits  of  this  town  unless  in  some  inclosed  place 
out  of  public  view,  under  a  penalty  of  not"  less  than  five  dollars  nor 
more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  offense. 

^  1 6.  No  person  or  persons  shall  sell  or  offer  to  sell,  give  away 
or  offer  to  give  away,  distribute  or  have  in  his  or  her  possession  with 
intent  to  give  away,  sell  or  distribute  in  or  upon  any  street  or  side- 
Avulk,  or  park  or  public  property  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  any  book, 
pamphlet,  circular,  handbill,  advertisement  or  notice  of  any  kind  pur- 
porting to  treat  of  or  treating  of  diseases  known  as  "  venereal  dis- 
eases," describing  or  explaining  or  purporting  to  describe  or  explain 
the  genital  organs,  giving  or  purporting  to  give  the  nature  and 
remedies  of  diseases  peculiar  to  female  and  uterine  diseases,  or  the 
nature  or  causes  of  nervous  debility,  impotency,  sterility  or  barren- 
ness, gonorrhoea,  gleet,  stricture,  syphilis,  affection  of  the  prostate 
gland  or  the  remedies  therefor,  or  the  cause  or  remedies  for  abortion 
or  miscarriage,  or  articles  or  means  of  preventing  conception,  under 
a  penalty  of  not  less  than  twenty  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars 
for  each  and  every  offense  arid  violation  of  this  section. 

^  17.  No  person  or  persons  shall  sell  or  offer  to  sell,  give  away 
or  offer  to  give  away,  distribute  or  have  in  his  or  her  possession  with 
intent  to  give  away,  sell  or  distribute  in  or  upon  any  street  or  side- 
walk or  park  or  public  property  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  any  book, 
pamphlet,  circular,  handbill,  advertisement  or  notice  of  any  kind 
giving  or  purporting  to  give  information  from  whom  or  where 
medicine  or  anything  whatever  may  be  obtained  for  the  cure,  pre- 
vention or  treatment  of  uterine  diseases,  or  diseases  peculiar  to 
females,  venereal  diseases  or  diseases  of  the  genital  organs,  or  nervous 
debility,  impotence,  sterility,  or  barrenness,  gonorrhoea,  gleet,  stric- 
ture, syphilis,  affection  of  the  prostate  gland,  abortion  or  miscar- 
riage, or  articles  or  means  of  preventing  conception,  under  a  penalty 
of  not  less  than  twenty  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for  each 
and  every  offense  and  violation  of  this  section. 

$  18.  No  person  shall  keep  or  maintain  or  be  an  inmate  of,  or 
in  any  way  connected  with  or  in  any  way  contribute  to  the  support 
of  any  house  of  ill  fame  or  assignation,  under  the  penalty  of  not 
less  than  ten  dollars  for  each  offense,  and  the  further  penalty  of  one 
hundred  dollars  for  every  twenty-four  hours  such  person  shall  keep 
or  maintain  said  house  after  the  first  conviction,  or  after  any  such 
person  shall  have  been  ordered  by  any  member  of  the  police  force 
to  discontinue  the  same. 

§  19.  If  any  person  shall  appear  in  a  public  place  in  a  state  of 
nudity,  or  in  a  dress  not  belonging  to  his  or  her  sex,  or  in  an  inde- 


230  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE, 

cent  or  lewd  dress,  or  shall  make  any  indecent  exposure  of  his  or 
her  person,  or  be  guilty  of  any  lewd  or  indecent  act  or  behavior, 
he  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  twenty  dollars,  nor 
exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

§  20.  Every  house  of  ill  fame  or  house  of  assignation  where 
men  and  women  resort  for  the  purpose  of  prostitution  is  hereby 
declared  to  be  a  nuisance. 

£  21.  Every  person  found  in  any  house  of  ill  fame  or  assigna- 
tion shall  be  considered  an  inmate  within  the  meaning  of  section 
1 8  of  this  chapter. 

§  22.  No  person  shall  exhibit,  sell  or  offer  to  sell  or  circulate 
or  distribute  any  indecent  or  lewd  book,  picture  or  other  thing 
whatever  of  an  immoral  or  scandalous  nature,  or  shall  exhibit  or 
perform  any  indecent,  immoral  or  lewd  play  or  other  representation, 
under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  twenty  dollars  nor  exceeding  one 
hundred  dollars. 

§  23.  Any  person  who  shall  inhumanely,  unnecessarily  or  cru- 
elly beat,  injure  or  otherwise  abuse  any  dumb  animal,  or  overload  any 
team,  or  expose  any  calves  or  sheep  upon  the  streets  or  sidewalks 
with  their  legs  tied,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five 
dollars  nor  exceeding  twenty  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  24.  No  doctor,  druggist  or  other  person  shall  make,  sell, 
put  up,  prepare  or  administer  any  prescription,  decoction  or  medi- 
cine under  any  deceptive  or  fraudulent  name,  direction  or  pretense, 
under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  twenty  dollars  nor  more  than  one 
hundred  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  25.  No  poisonous  medicine,  decoction  or  substance  shall  be 
held  for  sale  or  sold,  except  for  lawful  purposes  and  with  proper 
motives,  and  by  persons  competent  to  give  the  proper  directions  and 
precautions  as  to  the  use  of  the  same ;  nor  shall  any  bottle,  box,  parcel 
or  receptacle  thereof  be  delivered  to  any  person  unless  the  same  is 
marked  "  poison,"  nor  to  any  person  to  whom  the  party  delivering 
the  sama  has  reason  to  think  intends  it  for  any  illegal  or  improper 
use  or  purpose,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  twenty-five  dol- 
lars for  each  offense. 

§  26.  All  scaffolds  erected  in  this  town  for  use  in  the  erection 
of  stone,  brick  or  other  buildings,  shall  be  well  and  safely  sup- 
ported, and  of  sufficient  width  and  properly  secured  so  as  to  insure 
the  safety  of  persons  working  thereon  or  passing  under  or  by  the 


MISDEMEANORS.  23! 

same,  and  to  prevent  the  falling  thereof  or  of  any  materials  that  may  he 
used,  placed  or  deposited  thereon;  any  scaffold  which  maybe  other- 
wise erected  shall  be  deemed  a  nuisance;  and  any  person  who  shall 
erect  or  use  or  cause  to  be  erected  or  used  any  scaffold  contrary  to 
the  provisions  hereof  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five 
dollars  and  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars,  and  to  a  like  fine  for 
every  day  the  same  shall  remain  after  notice  to  remove. 

§27.  In  all  cases  of  persons  meeting  each  other  in  vehicles  in 
any  highway  or  thoroughfare,  or  upon  or  near  any  bridge,  each 
person  so  meeting  shall  in  all  cases  turn  oft*  and  go  to  the  right  side. 
Whoever  shall  violate  this  section  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not 
less  than  two  dollars  nor  exceeding  fifty  dollars:  Provided,  this 
section  shall  not  be  construed  to  apply  to  any  case  unless  some 
injury  to  persons  or  property  shall  occur  by  the  drivers  of  the  car- 
riage or  wagon  refusing  to  turn  to  the  right,  nor  to  any  case  where 
it  is  impracticable  from  the  nature  of  the  ground  for  the  driver  of 
the  carriage  or  wagon  to  turn  to  the  right. 

&  28.  Any  person  who  is  diseased,  maimed,  mutilated,  or  in 
any  way  deformed,  so  as  to  be  an  unsightly  or  disgusting  object,  or 
an  improper  person  to  be  allowed  in  or  on  the  streets,  highways, 
thoroughfares  or  public  places  in  this  town,  shall  not  therein  or 
thereon  expose  himself  or  herself  to  public  view,  under  the  penalty 
of  one  dollar  for  each  offense.  On  the  conviction  of  any  person  for 
a  violation  of  this  section,  if  it  shall  seem  proper  and  just,  the  fine 
provided  for  may  be  suspended,  and  such  person  detained  at  the 
police  station,  where  he  shall  be  well  cared  for,  until  he  can  be  com- 
mitted to  the  county  poor  house. 

§  29.  Any  person  who  shall  commit  any  indecent,  lewd  or  filthy 
act  in  any  place  in  the  town,  or  shall  utter  any  lewd  or  filthy  words, 
or  use  any  threatening  or  abusive  language  in  the  hearing  of  other 
persons  publicly,  or  shall  make  any  obscene  gesture  to  or  about  any 
other  person  publicly,  shall  be  deemed  a  disorderly  person,  and  upon 
conviction,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  30.  Any  person  who  shall  disquiet  or  disturb  any  congrega- 
tion or  assembly  met  for  religious  worship,  by  making  a  noise,  or  by 
rude  and  indecent  behavior  or  profane  discourse  within  their  place 
of  worship,  or  so  near  the  same  as  to  disturb  the  order  and  solemnity 
of  the  meeting,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars. 

§  31.  Every  person  who  shall  kill  or  wound,  or  attempt  to  kill 
or  wound,  by  the  use  of  fire-arms,  bow  and  arrow,  pelting  with  stones 


232  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

or  otherwise,  any  bird  within  the  town  limits,  or  shoot  an  arrow  or 
throw  a  stone  or  club,  or  other  missile  at  any  bird  within  any  private 
grounds  or  public  parks,  squares  or  grounds  (such  bird  not  being; 
the  property  of  the  person  so  offending),  or  enter  upon  any  private 
inclosure  or  public  ground  belonging  to  the  town  for  the  purpose  of 
doing  any  act  prohibited  in  this  section,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  not  less 
than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  ten  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  32.  No  person  shall  get  upon  or  off,  or  attempt  to  get  upon 
or  off  any  locomotive  engine,  tender,  car  or  train  of  cars  or  any 
platform  or  step  thereof,  while  the  same  or  either  of  them  are  ia 
motion,  without  first  having  obtained  from  the  person  or  persons  in 
charge  thereof  express  permission  so  to  do.  Any  violation  hereof 
shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  two  dollars  nor  more  than: 
fifty  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  33.  No  person  shall  place  or  post,  or  cause  to  be  placed  or 
posted  in  any  street  or  other  public  place  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  any 
hand-bill  or  advertisement  giving  notice  of  any  person  having  or 
professing  to  have  skill  in  the  treatment  or  curing  of  any  disorder  or 
disease,  or  giving  notice  of  the  sale  or  exposure  to  sale  of  any  nostrum; 
or  medicine,  under  the  penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offense- 

§  34.  No  person  shall  permit  any  bear,  or  other  noxious  or  dan- 
gerous animal  to  run  at  large,  or  shall  lead  any  such  animal  with  a 
chain  or  rope  or  other  appliance,  whether  such  animal  be  muzzled  or 
unmuzzled,  in  any  street,  avenue,  lane,  highway  or  public  place  within 
the  corporate  limits  of  this  town,  under  the  penaltv  of  ten  dollars  for 
each  offense. 

§  35.  No  person  shall  throw  or  deposit  any  water  or  other 
liquid  in  any  part  of  any  street,  alley,  lane  or  public  place,  except  in 
the  side-gutter  thereof,  under  the  penalt}*  of  two  dollars  for  every 
such  offense. 

§  36.  No  person  shall  within  the  corporate  limits  of  the  town- 
keep  or  maintain  or  become  an  inmate  of,  or  in  any  way  contribute- 
to  the  support  of  any  place,  house  or  room  where  opium  is  smoked 
or  where  persons  assemble  for  the  purpose  of  smoking  opium  or 
inhaling  the  fumes  thereof,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  live 
dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  37.  No  dyer  or  scourer,  or  any  other  person  shall  wash,, 
rinse  or  cleanse  or  cause  or  procure  to  be  washed,  rinsed  or  cleansed' 
any  cloth,  yarn  or  garment  in  any  street  in  the  town  of  Lake,, 
under  the  penalty  of  ten  dollars  for  each  offense. 


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§  38.  No  person  shall,  without  a  permit  in  writing  from  the 
supervisor,  beat  any  drum  or  other  instrument,  or  blow  any  horn  or 
other  instrument  for  the  purpose  of  attracting  the  attention  of  pas- 
sengers in  any  street  in  The  Town  of  Lake  to  any  circus,  menagerie  or 
show  or  other  thing  in  said  Town  of  Lake,  tending  to  the  collection  of 
persons  on  the  streets  and  sidewalks,  to  the  obstruction  of  the  same, 
under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  for  each  offense ;  nor 
shall  any  person  use  or  perform  with  any  hand  organ  or  other  mu- 
sical or  other  instrument  for  pay  or  in  expectation  of  payment,  in  any 
of  the  streets  or  public  places  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  before  9  o'clock 
A.  M.  or  after  9  o'clock  P.  M.  of  each  day,  under  a  penalty  of  ten  dol- 
lars for  each  offense.  The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  apply  only 
to  itinerant  musicians  and  circuses,  menageries  and  side  shows,  and 
shall  not  be  construed  so  as  to  affect  any  band  of  music  or  organized 
musical  society  engaged  in  serenading,  or  any  civic  or  military  parade. 

§  39.  No  person  shall  erect  any  booth,  or  establish  or  fix  any 
stand  for  the  sale  of  fruit,  books  or  other  merchandise,  or  any  article 
or  thing  of  value  whatever,  incumbering  any  part  or  portion  of 
the  streets  or  sidewalks,  under  the  penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each 
offense :  Provided,  that  the  supervisor  may  grant  permits  for  such  pur- 
pose, whenever  the  application  for  such  permits  shall  be  accompanied 
by  the  consent,  in  writing,  of  each  and  every  person  occupying  the 
premises  in  front  of  which  it  is  proposed  to  locate  under  such  permission. 

$  40.  Any  person  who  shall  make,  aid,  countenance  or  assist 
in  making  any  improper  noise,  riot,  disturbance,  breach  of  the 
peace  or  diversion  tending  to  a  breach  of  the  peace  in  the  streets 
or  elsewhere  in  the  town,  and  all  persons  who  shall  collect  in  bodies 
or  crowds  for  unlawful  purposes  or  for  any  purpose  to  the  annoy- 
ance or  disturbance  of  citizens  or  travelers  shall  be  severally  subject 
to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one  dollar,  norexceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

$41.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons  to  drive 
sleighs,  cutters  or  similar  vehicles,  in  the  streets  of  this  town  without 
having  bells  attached  to  either  horse  or  vehicle,  and  any  person  or 
persons  who  shall  drive-  any  sleigh  or  similar  vehicle  without  bells 
as  above  provided,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  live 
dollars  nor  exceeding  ten  dollars. 

§  42.  If  any  person  shall  be  in  a  state  of  intoxication  in  any  high- 
way, street,  thoroughfare  or  public  place  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  or  in 
any  private  house  or  place,  to  the  annoyance  of  any  citizen  or  person, 
or  shall  solicit  alms  from  any  person  without  written  permission  from 
the  supervisor  of  the  town,  he,  she  or  they,  shall  be  deemed  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor,  and  on  conviction,  be  fined  in  any  sum  not  ex- 
ceeding one  hundred  dollars. 


234  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 


CHAPTER     XLVIII. 


NUISANCES. 

SECTION  i.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  corpo- 
ration to  carry  on  the  business  of  slaughtering  of  animals,  or  render- 
ing of  any  animal  matter,  or  manufacturing  the  same  into  fertilizing 
material,  or  changing  the  form  thereof  in  any  manner  by  the  use  of 
heat,  steam,  fire,  chemicals,  or  otherwise,  at  any  place  or  in  any 
establishment  where  such  business  is  not  now  carried  on  within  The 
Town  of  Lake:  Provided,  always,  that  such  business  at  all  times, 
wherever  carried  on,  shall  be  so  conducted  as  to  create  no  offense 
or  nuisance,  and  in  strict  accordance  with  the  laws  of  the  state  of 
Illinois  and  the  ordinances  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  and  under  and 
subject  to  the  condition  of  a  license  from  said  town,  as  is  provided 
by  this  chapter. 

§  2.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation 
having  the  ownership  or  control  of  any  animal  matter  which  is 
unsound  or  in  process  of  decay,  within  The  Town  of  Lake,  to  permit 
the  same  to  be  and  remain  while  in  such  condition  within  said  town 
more  than  twelve  hours  after  such  animal  matter  shall  have  become 
unsound,  or  after  the  process  of  decay  shall  have  begun  in  the  same, 
whether  it  be  at  an  establishment  for  the  rendering  or  changing  the 
character  thereof,  within  the  locality  prescribed  and  designated  in 
the  preceding  section  of  this  chapter,  or  elsewhere  within  the  said 
town. 

§  3.  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation,  guilty  of  a  violation  of 
any  provision  of  the  last  two  preceding  sections  shall  be  fined  not 
less  than  fifty  dollars  and  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  for 
every  such  violation,  and  every  day  such  violation  shall  continue  shall 
be  deemed  a  separate  and  distinct  offense,  and  shall  subject  the  offender 
to  an  additional  fine  as  above  provided. 

§  4.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons,  company  or 
corporation  within  The  Town  of  Lake  to  engage  in  the  business  of 
slaughtering  animals  for  food,  packing  them  for  market,  or  render- 
ing the  offal,  fat,  bones  or  scraps  from  such  animals,  or  any  dead 
carcass,  or  any  animal  matter  whatever,  or  to  engage  in  the  manu- 
facture or  production  of  fertilizers  or  glue,  or  the  cleaning  or  rend- 


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cring  of  intestines,  unless  he  or  they  shall  have  obtained  a  license 
for  such  business  from  the  board  of  trustees.  Every  application  for 
such  license  shall  specify  the  place  and  location,  and  the  character 
of  the  business  for  which  license  is  desired,  and  the  applicant  shall 
pay  into  the  town  treasury,  as  a  license  fee,  the  sum  of  one  hundred 
dollars  per  annum. 

§  5.  Any  license  so  granted  may  be  revoked  upon  written  notice 
by  the  board  of  trustees,  whenever  it  shall  appear  to  their  satisfaction 
that  the  party  so  licensed  shall  have  violated  any  provision  of  any  ordi- 
nance of  The  Town  of  Lake,  or  any  statute  law  of  the  state  of  Illinois, 
relating  to  said  business  of  slaughtering,  packing,  rendering  and  man- 
ufacture of  fertilizers  or  glue. 

§  6.  The  health  commissioner,  or  any  or  all  sanitary  officers, 
shall  be  permitted  free  entrance  at  all  hours  of  the  day  or  night,  to 
all  buildings  used  for  the  purposes  specified  in  section  one,  and  to 
free  and  unrestrained  examination  of  all  apparatus  or  utensils  used 
in  such  manufacture,  or  in  the  disposition  of  gases  generated  in  such 
manufacture. 

§  7.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  provision  of  the  last 
three  preceding  sections  of  this  chapter  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum 
not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars, 
and  one  hundred  dollars  a  day  for  each  and  every  day  he  shall  con- 
tinue to  carry  on  said  business  without  a  license  after  such  conviction. 

§  8.  It  is  hereby  declared  a  nuisance  for  any  person  in  con- 
ducting, prosecuting  or  carrying  on  any  business  or  employment 
within  the  limits  of  the  town: 

(1)  To  place,  cause,  or  permit  to  be  placed,  or  permit  or  suffer 
to  remain  on  his  premises  as  aforesaid  any  blood,  bones,  offal,  filth, 
still  slops  or  other  offensive  matter  for  a  longer  period  than  twenty- 
four  hours  at  any  one  time,  from  the  first  day  of  March  to  the  first 
day  of  November  in  any  year,  or  exceeding  forty-eight  hours  during 
any  other  part  of  the  year. 

(2)  To  refuse,  fail  or  neglect  to  collect  all  such  offensive  matter 
mentioned  in  this  section  and  place  the  same  in  tubs  or  vats  con- 
structed as  the  commissioner  of  health  shall  direct,  and  remove  the 
same  within  the  time  above  prescribed  to  a  distance  of  at  least  forty 
rods  from  any  dwelling,  or  public  street,  or  highway,  in  covered  and 
tight  boxes  as  the  health  commissioner  may  direct,  and  so  disposed 
of  as  not  to  be  offensive  or  deleterious  to  the  public  health. 

(3)  For  any  person  to  refuse,  fail  or  neglect  to  keep  his  prem- 


236  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

ises  in  a  clean,  healthy  and  inoffensive  condition  at  all  times;  any 
person  creating  or  permitting  any  nuisance  to  exist,  declared  such  in> 
this  section,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  twenty-five  dol- 
lars and  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  and  every  offense, 
and  the  license  so  granted  to  him,  if  any  license  shall  have  been 
granted,  may  be  revoked  at 'the  discretion  of  the  board  of  trustees. 

§  9.  Any  distiller,  tanner,  brewer,  butcher,  pork  or  beef  packer, 
soap  boiler,  tallow  chandler,  dyer,  livery  stable  keeper  or  other 
persons  whatsoever  who  shall  cause  or  suffer  any  offal,  manure,  rub- 
bish, filth,  still  slops  or  any  refuse  animal  or  vegetable  matter,  or 
any  foul  or  nauseous  liquid  to  be  discharged  out  of  or  flow  from 
any  premises  owned  or  occupied  by  him,  or  to  be  thrown  into, 
or  deposited  on  or  upon  any  street,  alley,  public  square  or  vacant 
lot,  and  any  person  or  persons  creating  or  permitting  such  nui- 
sance to  exist,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  twenty-five 
dollars  and  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  for  every  offense. 

§  10.  For  any  person  to  permit  or  suffer  any  substance  of  the 
nature  mentioned  in  the  preceding  section,  which  is  liable  to  become 
putrid  or  offensive  or  injurious  to  the  public  health,  to  remain  on  any 
premises  owned  or  occupied  by  him  for  a  longer  period  than  twenty- 
four  hours  at  any  one  time,  from  the  first  day  of  March  to  the  first 
day  of  November  in  any  year,  or  exceeding  forty-eight  hours  during 
any  other  part  of  the  year,  or  neglect  to  remove  the  same  within  the 
time  above  designated,  in  the  manner  and  according  to  the  requisi- 
tions prescribed  in  like  cases  in  section  8  of  this  chapter,  shall  consti- 
tute, and  is  hereby  declared  a  nuisance.  Any  person  who  shall 
create  or  permit  such  nuisance  to  exist,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of 
not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars,  and  not  exceeeding  one  hundred 
dollars  for  every  offense,  and  a  further  penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars 
for  each  day  the  same  shall  be  allowed  to  remain  after  a  conviction 
for  the  first  offense. 

§n.  It  shall  constitute,  and  is  hereby  declared  a  nuisance,  for 
any  person  to  steam,  or  boil,  or  in  any  way  render  any  offal,  tainted 
or  damaged  lard  or  tallow,  or  steam  or  render  any  animal  substance, 
in  such  a  manner  as  to  occasion  any  offensive  smell,  or  which,  by 
undergoing  such  process,  so  taints  the  air  as  to  render  it  unwhole- 
some or  offensive  to  the  smell,  within  the  limits  of  the  town.  Any 
person  who  shall  create,  suffer  or  permit  such  nuisance  to  exist,  shall 
be  subject,  for  each  offense,  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  twenty-five 
dollars,  and  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

§  12.  Any  factory,  building,  or  structure  of  any  kind,  or  tallow 
chandler's  shop,  soap  factory,  tannery,  distillery,  livery  stable,  cattle 


NUISANCES.  237 

yard  or  shed,  barn,  packing-house,  slaughter-house,  or  rendering;, 
establishment,  which  shall  become  nauseous,  foul  or  offensive,  is- 
hereby  declared  a  nuisance,  and  the  person  or  persons  owning,  keep- 
ing or  maintaining  any  such  factory,  shop,  yard,  house,  building  or 
structure,  aforesaid,  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  twenty-five 
dollars,  and  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§13.  Any  store,  house,  factory,  building  or  structure  of  any  kind,. 
or  any  grounds  or  premises,  kept,  permitted  or  suffered  to  remain  for 
twenty-four  hours  in  such  condition  as  to  be  offensive  to  the  neigh- 
borhood, dangerous  or  prejudicial  to  the  health  or  safety  of  the  occu- 
pants, or  other  persons,  is  hereby  declared  a  nuisance,  and  the  owner, 
proprietor,  lessee  or  agent  of  such  store,  house,  factory,  building  or 
structure  of  any  kind,  or  grounds  or  premises,  shall  be  subject  to  a 
fine  of  not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars,  and  not  exceeding  one  hun- 
dred dollars,  and  to  a  like  fine  for  every  day  such  nuisance  shall 
continue  after  the  first  conviction. 

§14.  It  shall  constitute,  and  is  hereby  declared  a  nuisance, 
for  any  person  to  erect  or  maintain  any  privy  as  near  as  forty 
feet  to  any  street,  dwelling,  shop,  or  well,  unless  the  same  be  fur- 
nished with  a  substantial  vault,  six  feet  deep,  and  made  tight,  so  that 
the  contents  cannot  escape  therefrom,  and  sufficiently  secured  and 
enclosed.  Any  person  owning,  erecting  or  maintaining  such  privy, 
shall  be  subject  to  the  penalty  of  ten  dollars,  and  a  like  penalty  for 
every  week  he  shall  continue  the  same  after  the  first  conviction. 

§  15.  It  shall  constitute,  and  is  hereby  declared  a  nuisance,  for 
any  person  to  suffer  or  permit  any  cellar,  vault,  private  drain,  pool, 
sewer  or  sink,  upon  any  premises  belonging  to  or  occupied  by  him 
to  become  nauseous,  foul,  offensive  or  injurious  to  the  public  health. 
Any  person  who  shall  create,  suffer  or  permit  such  nuisance  to  exist, 
shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars,  and  not  exceed- 
ing fifty  dollars  in  every  case,  and  to  a  like  fine  for  every  day  the 
same  shall  continue  after  notice  to  remove  and  abate  such  nuisance. 

§  16.  All  privies,  any  part  of  the  contents  of  which  are  above 
the  surface,  or  within  two  feet  of  the  surface  of  the  earth;  and  all 
other  privies  that  are  foul,  emitting  smells  and  odors  prejudicial  to- 
the  public  health,  are  hereby  declared  nuisances,  and  the  health 
commissioner,  or  any  health  officer,  shall  have  power  to  abate  the 
same. 

§  17.  It  shall  constitute,  and  is  hereby  declared  a  nuisance,  for 
any  person  to  set  or  place,  or  cause  to  be  set  or  placed,  or  permit  to> 
remain,  any  goods,  wares,  merchandise,  or  other  property,  of  any 


238  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

kind,  on  any  street,  sidewalk,  alley,  or  way,  for  a  longer  time  than 
two  hours;  and  any  person  who  shall  so  obstruct  the  street  or  side- 
walk in  front  of  any  store  or  dwelling  with  any  goods,  wares,  mer- 
chandise, or  other  property,  shall,  on  conviction  thereof,  for  the  first 
offense,  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than 
fifty  dollars,  and  for  the  second  and  every  subsequent  offense,  by  a 
fine  of  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  and  in 
every  case  of  conviction  the  supervisor  shall  forthwith  remove  and 
abate  such  nuisance,  and  the  expense  thereof  shall  be  paid  by  the 
defendant  in  such  prosecution. 

§  1 8.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons  to  carry 
on,  establish,  prosecute  or  continue  within  The  Town  of  Lake,  the 
occupation  or  trade,  or  business  of  bone  boiling,  bone  burning,  bone 
grinding,  or  skinning  of  dead  animals;  and  every  such  establish- 
ment or  establishments  or  place  of  such  business,  existing  within 
the  corporate  limits,  is  hereby  declared  a  nuisance,  and  such  trade, 
occupation  or  business  shall  be  forthwith  abated  and  discontinued; 
.and  any  person  carrying  on  or  prosecuting  such  trade,  occupation 
or  business,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  fifty  dollars 
for  every  violation  thereof,  and  to  a  like  fine  for  every  day  such 
nuisance  shall  continue  after  notice  to  abate  the  same. 

§19.  For  the  purpose  of  carrying  the  foregoing  provisions  into 
effect,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  health  commissioner  to  cause  to  be 
detailed  a  sufficient  number  of  the  police  force,  by  permission  of 
the  superintendent,  to  make,  from  time  to  time,  and  as  often  as 
may  be  requisite,  a  thorough  and  systematic  examination  of  the 
town,  and  to  ascertain  and  report  to  the  proper  authority,  for  pros- 
ecution, all  violations  of  this  chapter;  and  for  this  purpose  they  shall 
be  permitted  at  all  times  to  visit  and  enter  into  or  upon  any  building, 
lot  or  grounds,  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  town,  and  to  make 
examination  thereof. 

^20.  Whenever  any  nuisance  shall  be  found  on  any  premises, 
within  the  town,  contrary  to  this  chapter,  the  health  commissioner 
is  hereby  authorized,  in  his  discretion,  to  cause  the  same  to  be  sum- 
marily abated,  in  such  manner  as  he  may  direct. 

§21.  In  all  cases  where  a  nuisance  shall  be  found  in  any  build- 
ing, or  upon  any  ground  or  other  premises  within  the  jurisdiction  of 
the  town,  twenty-four  hours  notice  may  be  given  in  writing,  signed  by 
the  health  commissioner,  or  by  the  acting  health  officer,  to  the  owner 
or  occupant  of  such  building  or  other  premises,  where  he  is  known 
and  can  be  found,  to  remove  such  nuisance,  and  in  case  of  his  neg- 
lect or  refusal  to  abate  the  same  in  accordance  with  such  notice, 


NUISANCES OFFICIAL    PAPER.  239- 

he  shall  be  chargeable  with  the  expenses  which  may  be  incurred  in 
the  removal  thereof,  to  be  collected  by  suit  or  otherwise,  in  addition 
to  the  fine  or  penalty. 

^22.  In  all  cases  where  no  provision  is  herein  made,  defining 
what  are  nuisances,  and  how  the  same  may  be  removed,  abated  or 
prevented,  in  addition  to  what  may  be  declared  such  herein,  those 
offenses  which  are  known  to  the  common  law  of  the  land,  and  the 
statutes  of  Illinois,  as  nuisances,  may,  in  case  the  same  exist  within 
the  town  limits,  be  treated  as  such,  and  proceeded  against  as  is  in 
this  chapter  provided,  or  in  accordance  with  any  other  law  which 
shall  give  the  officer  trying  the  same  jurisdiction. 


CHAPTER     XLIX 


OFFICIAL    PAPER. 

SECTION  i.  The  town  clerk  shall  annually  on  the  third  Monday 
of  April,  advertise  in  such  newspaper  or  newspapers  published  in 
The  Town  of  Lake  as  he  may  select,  inviting  proposals  for  the  fol- 
lowing contracts: 

(1)  For  the  publication  of  those  matters  and  things  required  by 
law  or  any  ordinance  of  the  town  to  be  published  in  a  newspaper. 

(2)  For  the  printing  and  furnishing  of  all  forms  and  blanks  which 
may  be  required  by  the  several  departments  and  officers  of    the 
t,own  government. 

§  2.  Such  advertisement  shall  be  published  for  two  consecu- 
tive weeks;  and  each  contract  shall  be  let  to  the  lowest  reliable  and 
responsible  bidder.  Separate  bids  shall  be  made  for  each  of  said 
contracts;  and  all  bids  shall  be  sealed  and  directed  to  and  deposited 
with  the  clerk  within  twenty  days  after  the  date  of  the  first  publi- 
cation of  said  advertisement. 

§  3.  Said  bids  shall  be  opened  at  the  hour  and  place  mentioned 
in  said  advertisement  by  the  clerk  in  the  presence  of  the  super- 
visor and  the  chairman  of  the  committee  on  finance  who  shall 


240  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OK    LAKE. 

constitute  a  board  for  such  purpose,  and  it  shall  then  and  there  be 
ascertained  and  determined  by  the  majority  of  said  board,  who  is, 
if  any  one,  the  lowest  reliable  and  responsible  bidder  for  each  of 
said  contracts. 

§  4.  If  two  or  more  persons  make  the  same  bid,  which  is  the 
lowest  bid  for  either  contract,  and  both  or  all  are  equally  reliable  and 
responsible  persons  in  the  opinion  of  a  majority  of  said  board,  said 
clerk  shall  re-advertise  for  proposals  for  such  contract  and  such 
subsequent  advertisement  may  be  in  the  discretion  of  the  super- 
visor for  three  instead  of  two  weeks  as  required  in  section  2.  But 
if  one  of  said  persons  making  the  same  bid  which  is  the  lowest 
bid,  is  in  the  opinion  of  a  majority  of  said  board  reliable  and  re- 
sponsible and  the  others  are  not,  then  such  contract  shall  be  a\varded 
to  such  so  adjudged  reliable  and  responsible  person. 

§5-  In  determining  who  is  the  lowest  reliable  and  responsi- 
ble bidder  for  the  first  mentioned  contract,  said  board  may  take 
into  consideration  the  circulation  of  the  bidder's  newspaper  within 
the  limits  of  the  town. 

§  6.  All  bids  received  by  the  clerk,  and  the  action  of  said 
board  thereon,  shall  be  reported  by  said  clerk  to  the  board  of  trus- 
tees for  its  approval;  and  when  approved  by  that  body,  the 
said  several  contracts  shall  be  let  by  the  clerk  to  the  person  or  per- 
sons to  whom  they  were  awarded  by  said  board,  for  the  period  of 
one  year  and  no  longer. 

§  7.  The  newspaper  to  which  the  first  named  contract  may 
be  awarded  and  let  shall  be  the  official  journal  of  the  town;  and 
shall  forthwith  furnish  a  bond  with  two  sureties,  to  be  approved  by 
the  supervisor,  in  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars  for  the  faithful 
performance  of  their  respective  contracts. 

'  §  8.  All  matters  to  be  printed  in  the  official  journals  except 
such  as  emanate  from  the  board  of  trustees,  shall  first  be  delivered  to 
the  supervisor  for  his  approval;  and  all  payments  for  printing  done 
by  the  official  journals  shall  be  made  monthly. 

£  9.  One  copy  of  each  newspaper  published  in  The  Town  of  Lake 
shall  be  furnished  to  the  respective  offices  of  the  supervisor  and  the 
town  clerk,  which  said  newspapers  shall  be  placed  regularly  on  file 
as  part  of  the  public  archives  of  the  town. 

§  10.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  clerk  to  obtain  from  each 
of  the  town  officers  as  far  as  practicable  correct  copies  of  all  such 


•OFFICIAL    PAPER  -ORDINANCES.  24! 

blanks,  .forms  and  other  matter  to  be  printed,  as  may  be  required 
in  the  duties  of  their  several  offices;  which  said  copies  shall  be 
•exposed  in  his  office  for  examination  and  inspection  by  all  persons 
\vho  may  desire  to  bid  for  said  second  contract  during  the  time  of 
the  publication  of  said  advertisement. 

§  ii.  The  bids  for  said  last  mentioned  contract  shall  be  for  the 
price  per  ream  and  page  at  which  each  and  every  size  of  the  blanks, 
forms  and  other  printed  matter  required  in  said  contract  will  be  fur- 
nishedjmd  printed  by  the  party  bidding. 

§  12.  The  person  or  persons  to  whom  said  last  mentioned 
contract  may  be  awarded  and  let,  shall  forthwith  furnish  a  good  and 
sufficient  bond,  to  be  approved  by  the  supervisor,  in  the  sum  of  two 
thousand  dollars  for  the  faithful  performance  of  the  contract. 


CHAPTER    L. 


ORDINANCES. 

SECTION  i.  All  ordinances  passed  by  the  board  of  trustees  shall 
be  recorded  by  the  clerk  in  a  proper  book  or  books  with  indexes. 
The  originals  shall  be  filed  in  the  clerk's  office,  and  due  proof  of  the 
publication  of  all  ordinances  requiring  publication  by  the  certificate 
of  the  printer  or  publisher  shall  be  procured  by  the  clerk  and 
attached  thereto,  or  written  and  attested  upon  the  face  of  the  record 
of-  such  ordinances. 

^2.  In  all  cases  where  the  same  offense  may  be  made  punish- 
abfe  or  shall  be  created  by  different  clauses  or  sections  of  the  ordi- 
nances of  the  town,  the  prosecuting  officer  may  elect  under  which 
to  proceed;  but  not  more  than  one  recovery  shall  be  had  against  the 
same  person  for  the  same  offense. 

^  3.  Whenever  in  this  or  in  any  ordinance  hereafter  passed, 
a  minimum  but  no  maximum  fine  or  penalty  is  imposed,  the  court 
may  in  its  discretion  adjudge  the  offender  or  offenders  to  pay  any 


2|2  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

sum  of  money  exceeding  the  minimum  fine  or  penalty  so  fixed,  not 
exceeding  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars. 

§  4.  When  any  ordinance  repealing  a  former  ordinance,  clause 
or  provision  shall  be  itself  repealed,  such  repeal  shall  not  be  con- 
strued to  revive  such  former  ordinance,  clause  or  provision  unless 
it  shall  be  therein  so  expressly  provided. 

§  5.  Whenever  any  words  in  any  ordinance  importing  the  plural 
number  shall  be  used  in  describing  or  referring  to  any  matters, 
parties  or  persons,  any  single  matter,  party  or  person  shall  be  deemed 
to  be  included  although  distributive  words  may  not  be  used.  And 
when  any  subject  matter,  party  or  person  shall  be  referred  to  in  any 
ordinance  by  words  importing  the  singular  number  only,  or  the 
masculine  gender,  several  matters,  parties  or  persons,  and  females 
as  well  as  males  and  bodies  corporate  shall  be  deemed  to  be  included: 
Provided,  that  these  rules  of  construction  shall  not  be  applied  to  any 
ordinance  which  shall  contain  any  express  provision  excluding  such 
construction,  or  where  the  subject  matter  or  context  of  such  ordi- 
nance may  be  repugnant  thereto. 

§  6.  Whenever  in  any  ordinance  the  doing  of  any  act  or  the 
omission  to  do  any  act  or  duty  is  declared  to  be  a  breach  thereofr 
and  there  shall  be  no  fine  or  penalty  declared  for  such  breach,  any 
person  who  shall  be  convicted  of  any  such  breach  shall  be  adjudged 
to  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than  three  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred 
dollars. 

§7-  In  every  prosecution  brought  for  a  violation  of  any  ordi- 
nance of  The  Town  of  Lake,  where  the  offense  charged  is  one 
punishable  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  Illinois  as  a  misdemeanor, 
the  court  or  magistrate  trying  the  cause  may  upon  conviction  in 
lieu  of  the  fine  imposed  by  the  ordinance  or  in  addition  thereto, 
cause  the  offender  to  be  imprisoned  for  a  period  not  exceeding  three 
months. 

§  8.  All  the  printed  books  containing  the  revised  ordinances 
shall  be  deposited  with  the  clerk.  He  shall  deliver  one  copy  thereof 
to  each  officer  of  the  town,  and  to  such  other  persons  as  the  board 
of  trustees  may  direct. 

§  9.  The  clerk  shall  have  power  to  extend  to  or  reciprocate 
courtesies  of  other  towns  and  cities,  by  presenting  to  them  a  copy  of 
the  revised  ordinances  bound  at  the  expense  of  the  town  in  such 
manner  as  to  him  may  seem  suitable. 


PAWNBROKERS,    ETC.  243 


CHAPTER     LI. 


PAWNBROKERS    AND    LOANBROKERS,  OR    KEEPERS 
OF  LOAN  OFFICES. 

SECTION  i.  The  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  may  from 
time  to  time  grant  licenses  to  such  persons  as  shall  produce  to  him 
satisfactory  evidence  of  their  good  character  to  exercise  or  carry  on 
the  business  of  a  pawnbroker,  or  of  a  loanbroker  or  keeper  of  a  loan 
office;  and  no  person  shall  exercise  or  carry  on  the  business  of  a 
pawnbroker,  loanbroker  or  keeper  of  a  loan  office  without  being 
duly  licensed,  under  the  penalty  of  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  day 
he  or  she  shall  exercise  or  carry  on  said  business  without  such 
license. 

§  2.  Any  person  who  loans  money  on  deposit  or  pledge  of 
personal  property  or  other  valuable  thing,  or  who  deals  in  the  pur- 
chasing of  personal  property  or  other  valuable  thing  on  condition  of 
selling  the  same  back  again  at  a  stipulated  price,  is  hereby  defined 
and  declared  to  be  a  pawnbroker. 

§  3.  Every  person  receiving  such  license  shall  pay  therefor  the 
sum  of  fifty  dollars  for  the  use  of  the  town. 

§  4.  Every  person  so  licensed  shall  at  the  time  of  receiving 
such  license,  enter  with  two  sufficient  sureties  into  a  joint  and 
several  bond  to  The  Town  of  Lake  in  the  penalty  of  five  hundred 
dollars,  conditioned  for  the  due  observance  of  all  such  ordinances 
of  the  town  as  may  be  passed  or  in  force  respecting  pawnbrokers 
and  loanbrokers  or  keepers  of  loan  offices,  at  any  time  during  the 
continuance  of  such  license. 

§  5.  Every  pawnbroker  and  loanbroker  or  keeper  of  a  loan 
office,  shall  keep  a  book  in  which  shall  be  fairly  written  in  ink  at 
the  time  of  each  loan  an  accurate  account  and  description  in  the 
English  language  of  the  goods,  article  or  thing  pawned  or  pledged, 
the  amount  of  money  loaned  thereon,  the  time  of  pledging  the  same, 
the  rate  of  interest  to  be  paid  on  such  loan,  and  the  name  and  resi- 
dence of  the  person  pawning  or  pledging  the  said  goods,  article  or 
thing.  No  entry  made  in  such  book  shall  be  erased,  obliterated  or 
defaced. 
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244  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

§  6.  Every  pawnbroker  and  loanbroker  or  keeper  of  a  loan 
office,  shall  at  the  time  of  each  loan  deliver  to  the  person  pawning 
or  pledging  any  goods,  article  or  thing,  a  memorandum  or  note 
signed  by  him  or  her  containing  the  substance  of  the  entry  required 
to  be  made  in  his  'or  her  book  by  the  last  preceding  section ;  and  no 
charge  shall  be  made  or  received  by  any  pawnbroker  or  loanbroker 
or  keeper  of  a  loan  office  for  any  such  entry,  memorandum  or  note. 

§  7.  The  said  book  as  well  as  every  article  or  other  thing  of 
value  pawned  or  pledged,  shall  at  all  reasonable  times  be  open  to 
the  inspection  of  the  supervisor  or  any  member  of  the  police  force. 

§  8.  No  pawnbroker,  loanbroker  or  keeper  of  a  loan  office, 
shall  under  any  pretense  whatever  purchase  or  buy  any  second- 
hand furniture,  metals  or  clothes  or  any  other  article  or  thing  what- 
ever offered  to  him  or  her  as  a  pawn  or  pledge. 

§  9.  Every  pawnbroker,  loanbroker  or  keeper  of  a  loan  office 
who  shall  violate  or  neglect  or  refuse  to  comply  with  any  or 
either  of  the  provisions  or  sections  of  this  chapter,  when  no  other 
penalty  is  imposed,  shall  for  every  such  offense  forfeit  and  pay  the 
sum  of  twenty-five  dollars. 

§  10.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  licensed  person  aforesaid  to 
make  out  and  deliver  to  the  captain  of  police  every  day  before 
the  hour  of  12  A.  M.,  a  legible  and  correct  copy  from  the  book 
required  in  section  5  hereof,  of  all  personal  property  and  other 
valuable  things  received  on  deposit  or  purchased  during  the  pre- 
ceding day,  together  with  the  time,  meaning  the  hour  when  received 
or  purchased,  and  a  description  of  the  person  or  persons  by  whom 
left  in  pledge  or  from  whom  the  same  were  purchased. 

§  ii.  No  personal  property  received  on  deposit,  purchased  or 
pledged  by  any  such  licensed  person,  shall  be  sold  or  permitted  to  be 
redeemed  or  removed  from  the  place  of  business  of  such  licensed 
person  for  the  space  of  twenty-four  hours  after  the  copy  and  state- 
ment required  to  be  delivered  to  the  captain  of  police  shall  have 
been  delivered  as  required  by  the  preceding  section. 

§  12.  No  person  licensed  as  aforesaid  shall  receive  on  deposit 
or  pledge  any  personal  property  or  other  valuable  thing  before  the 
hour  of  six  A.  M.,  nor  after  the  hour  of  eight  p.  M.,  during  the  months 
of  January,  February,  March,  April,  October,  November  and  De- 
cember of  each  year ;  nor  before  the  hour  of  five  A.  M.  nor  after  the 
hour  of  nine  P.  M.,  during  the  months  of  May,  June,  July,  August 
and  September  of  each  year. 


PAWNBROKERS,  ETC. PEDLARS.  245 

§  13.  No  person  licensed  as  aforesaid  shall  take  or  receive  in 
pawn  or  pledge  for  money  loaned,  any  property,  bonds,  notes,  secu- 
rities, article  or  other  valuable  thing  from  any  minor,  or  the  owner- 
ship of  which  is  in  or  which  is  claimed  by  any  minor,  or  which  may 
be  in  the  possession  or  under  the  control  of  any  minor. 

§  14.  No  person  licensed  as  aforesaid  shall  carry  on  any  other 
business  or  avocation  directly  or  indirectly  in  the  same  building,  or 
in  any  building  adjoining  the  place  or  building  in  which  he  or  she 
may  be  licensed  to  carry  on  the  business  of  pawn  broker,  loan 
broker  or  keeper  of  a  loan  office. 

§  15.  No  person  licensed  as  aforesaid  shall  employ  any  per- 
son under  the  age  of  sixteen  years  to  take  pledges  in  pawn. 

§  1 6.  No  person  so  licensed  shall  take  any  article  in  pawn 
from  any  person  appearing  to  be  intoxicated,  nor  from  any  person 
known  to  be  a  notorious  thief,  or  to  have  been  convicted  of  larceny 
or  burglary. 

§17.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  captain  of  police  to  report 
to  the  president  of  the  board  any  failure  to  comply  with  any  pro- 
vision of  this  chapter,  and  the  president  may  revoke  the  license  of 
such  person. 

§  1 8.  The  president  may  forthwith  revoke  the  license  of  any 
person  who  shall  have  been  convicted  before  any  police  justice,  or 
justice  of  the  peace,  of  any  violation  of  any  provision  of  this  chapter 
whether  the  judgment  of  such  justice  shall  have  been  appealed 
£rom  or  not. 


CHAPTER     LII. 


PEDLARS. 

SECTION  i.  Every  person  who  shall,  by  sample  or  otherwise, 
sell  or  offer  for  sale,  barter  or  exchange  at  retail  any  farm  produce, 
butter,  milk,  poultry,  fish  or  other  goods,  wares  or  merchandise, 
traveling  from  place  to  place  in,  upon  and  along  the  streets  of  this 
town,  shall  be  deemed  a  pedlar;  and  shall  annually  and  before  engag- 
ing in  said  business  obtain  a  license  as  a  pedlar.  No  person  shall 


246  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

engage  in  the  business  of   a  pedlar  without  a  license,  under  the 
penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  2.  Applications  for  licenses  for  pedlars  shall  be  made  to  the 
president  of  the  board  of  trustees  in  writing;  and  each  such  appli- 
cation shall  specify  the  number  of  wagons  or  other  vehicles  intended 
to  be  employed  by  the  applicant  in  carrying  on  his  said  business, 
and  upon  the  granting  of  the  license  by  the  president,  every  said 
applicant  shall  pay  to  the  town  treasurer  as  a  license  fee  annually 
the  sum  of  five  dollars  for  each  and  every  wagon  or  other  vehicle 
so  to  be  employed  in  said  business,  and  the  sum  of  three  dollars 
for  each  and  every  pack  or  foot  pedlar,  and  thereupon  the  town  clerk 
shall  issue  said  license  in  the  manner  and  as  provided  in  other  cases. 

§  3.  Every  license  shall  state  the  number  of  wagons  or  other 
vehicles  authorized  to  be  employed;  but  such  number  may  be  in- 
creased upon  a  further  written  application  to  the  president,  and  the 
payment  of  five  dollars  for  each  and  everv  additional  vehicle  so  asked 
for. 

§  4.  Every  wagon,  'cart  or  other  vehicle  licensed  under  the 
provisions  of  this  chapter,  shall  be  conspicuously  and  permanently 
marked  with  the  name  and  place  of  business  of  the  owner  or  owners 
thereof,  and  with  the  number  of  his  or  their  license,  and  with  the 
letters  «T.  L." 

f5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  police  officers  to  secure  the 
wcement  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  and  also  to  report  to 
the  president  every  violation  of  any  provision  of  this  chapter  which 
may  render  the  person  committing  the  same  liable  to  revocation 
of  license  as  hereinafter  specified;  to  prevent  so  far  as  they  have 
legal  power  to  do  so,  all  sale  of  or  dealing  in  decayed  or  unwholesome 
produce,  poultry  or  fish,  or  impure,  adulterated  or  unwholesome  milk;, 
and  to  procure  the  arrest,  conviction  and  punishment  of  any  and  all 
offenders  against  the  provisions  of  this  chapter. 

§  6.  They  shall  have  power  and  authority  to  enter  any  and  all 
wagons  or  other  vehicles  used  and  employed  by  pedlars  within 
the  corporate  limits,  and  whenever  they  have  reason  to  believe  that 
any  article  found  therein  is  adulterated,  impure  or  unwholesome,  shall 
take  samples  thereof  and  cause  the  same  to  be  analyzed,  or  other- 
wise satisfactorily  tested,  and  the  result  of  such  shall  be  recorded 
and  preserved  as  evidence. 

§  7.  Whoever  sells  or  exchanges,  or  has  in  his  possession,  with 
intent  to  sell  or  exchange,  or  offers  for  sale  or  exchange  any  un- 
wholesome produce,  poultry,  fish,  or  adulterated  or  unwholesome 


PEDLARS.  247 

milk,  or  milk  to  which  water  or  any  foreign  substance  has  been  added, 
shall,  for  such  offense,  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten 
dollars. 

§  8.  All  milk  produced  from  sick  or  diseased  cows,  and  all 
milk  obtained  from  cows  kept  in  distillery  yards  or  pens,  and  fed 
on  distillery  slop  or  waste,  shall  be  deemed  impure  and  unwhole- 
some within  the  meaning  of  this  chapter,  and  all  milk  to  which 
water,  ice  or  any  other  substance  has  been  added  shall  be  deemed 
adulterated  within  the  meaning  of  this  chapter;  and  it  shall  be 
unlawful  for  any  parson  or  persons  to  sell,  offer,  or  expose  for 
sale,  any  milk  from  which  the  cream,  or  any  part  thereof,  has  been 
removed,  unless  such  milk  be  sold  as  "  skimmed  milk,"  and  the 
character  of  the  same  be  expressly  and  distinctly  stated  to  the  pur- 
chaser. 

§  9.  Any  person  licensed  as  aforesaid,  under  this  chapter,  who 
sh  ill  be  guilty  of  any  fraud,  cheat,  misrepresentation  or  imposition, 
•while  acting  in  such  capacity,  or  who  shall  peddle  any  other  kind  of 
goods,  merchandise  or  article,  or  use  any  other  mode  of  conveyance 
than  that  specified  in  his  license,  without  a  permit  from  the  presi- 
dent, shall,  on  conviction  thereof,  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
five  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

§  10.  This  chapter  shall  not  be  so  construed  as  to  apply  to  any 
person  or  persons  coming  into  the  town  from  the  country,  with  teams 
with  any  produce  for  market,  or  to  any  person  selling  vegetables, 
berries,  or  the  produce  of  their  own  farms  or  premises;  nor  shall 
the  same  be  so  construed  as  to  make  it  a  penal  offense  for  children 
under  the  age  of  twelve  years  to  peddle  apples  or  other  fruit,  pro- 
vided they  do  not  occupy  a  stand ;  nor  shall  it  be  so  construed  as  to 
apply  to  the  peddling  of  newspapers. 

§n.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  provision  of  this  chap- 
ter, or  refuse  or  neglect  to  comply  with  any  requirement  thereof, 
where  no  other  or  different  penalty  is  provided,  shall  be  punished 
by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one  dollar,  nor  more  than  one  hundred 
dollars.  And  in  addition  to  such  fine  all  licenses  that  may  have 
teen  issued  to  any  such  person  or  persons,  shall  be  revoked  by 
the  president  immediately,  upon  his  receiving  notice  of  such  con- 
viction. 


248  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 


CHAPTER     LIII. 


PORTERS    AND    RUNNERS. 

SECTION  i.  Any  person  of  good  moral  character,  on  application 
to  the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  in  writing,  shall  be  entitled 
to  a  license  to  act  as  public  porter  and  runner,  upon  his  executing, 
for  the  use  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  a  bond,  with  two^or  more  good  and 
sufficient  sureties,  to  be  approved  by  the  president,  in  the  penal  sum 
of  two  hundred  dollars,  conditioned  to  observe  and  keep  all  ordinances 
upon  this  subject,  and  upon  the  payment  of  the  sum  of  ten  dollars 
per  annum,  and  no  other  fees:  Provided,  that  all  licenses  issued 
or  granted  under  this  chapter  shall  expire  on  the  last  day  of  June 
in  each  and  every  year. 

§  2.  The  keeper  or  keepers  of  any  hotel  or  public  house,  wha 
shall  have  obtained  a  license  for  any  porter  or  runner  in  his,  her  or 
their  employ,  may,  at  his,  her  or  their  option,  have  the  same  revoked, 
and  be  entitled  to  another  for  the  remaining  portion  of  the  year  for 
which  such  license  shall  originally  have  been  granted,  without  addi- 
tional charge  or  fee  therefor:  Provided,  that  no  such  license  shall 
be  changed  or  transferred  to  any  other  hotel  or  public  house  without 
an  order  from  the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  for  that  purpose 
first  had  and  obtained;  and  each  and  every  keeper  or  proprietor  of 
any  such  hotel  or  public  house  shall  be  personally  liable  for  each  and 
every  violation  of  this  chapter  or  any  clause  thereof,  when  committed 
by  any  porter  pr  runner  in  his,  her  or  their  employ,  or  who  shall  be 
acting  under  the  license  granted  to  any  such  hotel  or  public  house 
keeper  or  proprietor,  or  either  of  them,  for  the  use  of  such  hotel  or 
public  house. 

§  3.  No  person  shall  act  as  porter  or  runner,  either  for  himself 
or  any  public  house  or  hotel,  or  in  any  manner  act  in  that  capacity, 
or  ask  the  patronage  or  custom  of  any  traveler  or  other  person  for  any 
public  house,  hotel,  railroad  depot  or  station,  or  other  place  of  business 
of  the  person  or  persons,  company,  line  or  corporation  by  whom  he 
shall  be  employed,  unless  he  shall  first  obtain  a  license,  or  be  furnished 
with  one  by  the  person  or  persons,  company,  or  corporation  for  whom 
he  is  acting,  according  to  the  provisions  hereof;  nor  unless  he  shall, 
when  so  acting  as  public  porter  or  runner  as  aforesaid,  wear  con- 


PORTERS    AND    RUNNERS.  249 

spicuously  upon  his  breast  a  badge  as  follows,  to  wit:  A  brass  plate, 
elliptical  in  form,  with  a  catch  or  pin  to  attach  the  same  to  the  front 
of  the  breast,  upon  which  shall  be  painted  or  engraved  in  legible  let- 
ters, of  not  less  than  three-eighths  of  an  inch  in  length,  the  name 
of  the  public  house,  hotel,  railroad  depot  or  station,  or  company, 
or  other  place  for  which  the  said  porter  or  runner  is  acting;  and 
also,  in  legible  letters,  of  not  less  than  one-half  of  an  inch  in 
length,  the  word  "  porter  "  or  "  runner  "  as  the  wearer  may  be,  and 
also  in  legible  letters,  not  less  than  five-eighths  of  an  inch  in  length, 
the  number  of  the  license  of  the  said  porter  or  runner,  and  the  letters 
«'  T.  L."  The  said  plate  shall  not  be  less  than  three  and  one-half  inches 
in  length,  nor  less  than  two  inches  in  width.  And  no  person  in  said 
town  shall  in  any  manner  act  as  runner  for  any  public  house,  hotel,  com- 
pany, boarding  house  or  person,  unless  such  runner  shall  present  to  the 
person  or  persons  solicited,  a  card,  plainly  printed  in  a  language 
understood  by  such  person,  containing  the  name  of  the  person,  com- 
pany or  place,  and  the  business  and  location  of  the  company,  person 
or  place  for  whom  such  runner  may  be  acting,  and  if  he  be  a  runner 
for  a  boarding  house,  hotel  or  other  place  of  entertainment,  such  card 
shall  contain  also  the  price  of  lodging,  and  of  board  by  the  day,  by 
the  week,  by  the  single  meal,  and  the  price  of  conveyance  of  persons 
and  baggage  to  and  from  such  boarding  house,  hotel  or  other  place 
of  entertainment,  conspicuously  printed  on  such  card  Or  bill. 

§  4.  No  person  shall  at  any  railroad  depot  or  station,  or  other 
place  in  thie  town,  ask  or  solicit  any  traveler  or  other  person  or  persons 
to  ride  in  or  use  any  hackney  coach,  cab,  omnibus  or  other  vehicle 
which  runs  for  hire  and  for  the  conveyance  of  passengers,  unless  he 
or  they  shall  have  a  license  for  that  purpose  first  had  and  obtained: 
Provided,  that  nothing  herein  contained  is  intended  to  prevent  the 
owner  or  licensed  driver  of  any  licensed  hackney  coach,  cab  or 
omnibus  from  notifying  any  person  that  his  hackney  coach,  cab  or 
omnibus  is  licensed,  and  runs  for  hire  for  the  conveyance  of  passen- 
gers. 

§  5.  No  person  shall  as  a  runner  or  porter  at  any  place  or  any 
railroad  or  railway  grounds,  or  on  any  street  adjacent  thereto,  ask, 
solicit  or  engage  any  person  to  repair  to  any  railroad  or  other  public 
conveyance,  excepting  such  agents  for  other  railroads  or  other  public 
conveyances  as  may  be  authorized  thereto  by  the  person  having 
charge  of  the  said  passenger  houses  respectively;  and  persons  so 
authorized  shall,  at  all  times  when  on  duty,  wear  appropriate  badges 
designating  their  employment:  Provided,  that  the  provisions  of  this 
section  shall  not  apply  to  any  licensed  hackman  asking  or  soliciting 
custom  for  his  hack  while  wearing  the  badge  specified  in  section  3 
of  this  chapter. 


250  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

§  6.  No  porter  or  runner  shall  at  any  time  or  place  make  use 
of  any  device,  deceit,  imposition  or  false  representation  in  relation  to 
the  charge  of  fare,  character,  custom  or  location  of  any  public  house 
or  hotel,  private  house,  street,  place  of  business,  locality  or  number 
whatever  in  said  town,  or  in  relation  to  the  time  or  place  of  the 
arrival  or  departure  of  any  stage,  railroad  car  or  train  or  other  con- 
veyance, to  any  stranger,  non-resident  or  citizen,  or  in  any  other 
manner  use  any  deceit  as  to  the  arrival  or  departure  of  any  stage, 
railroad  car  or  train,  or  other  conveyance,  or  as  to  any  locality,  place, 
name  or  number,  or  be  guilty  of  any  misrepresentation  or  evil  prac- 
tice toward  any  emigrant  or  other  person. 

§  7.  Public  porters  shall  be  entitled  to  charge  for  each  trunk  or 
package  which  they  may  car^,  twenty-five  cents,  for  any  distance 
not  exceeding  one  mile,  and  fifty  cents  for  any  distance  exceeding 
one  mile;  and  no  public  porter  shall  demand  or  exact  any  greater 
sums  than  are  herein  permitted. 

§  8.  No  porter  or  runner  shall  at  any  time  or  place  when  en- 
gaged in  his  employment  make  any  unusual  noise  or  disturbance,  or 
make  use  of  profane,  obscene  or  boisterous  language,  or  use  any  lan- 
guage or  be  guilty  of  any  act  calculated  to  disturb  the  public  peace 
or  the  good  order  of  the  town,  or  harass,  vex  or  disturb  strangers  or 
citizens. 

§  9.  Any  member  of  the  police  force  shall  have  power  to  arrest 
and  commit  any  porter  or  .runner  for  examination  who  shall  be 
engaged  in  the  commission  of  any  act  prohibited  by  this  chapter. 
They  shall  also  have  power  to  give  any  directions  which  may  be 
required  for  the  preservation  of  the  peace,  or  the  convenience  of  the 
public  at  any  railroad  station,  and  no  person  shall  refuse  to  obey 
any  such  directions,  or  shall  resist  such  officer  in  the  discharge  of 
any  duty. 

§  10.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  section  or  any  clause 
or  provision  of  any  section  of  this  chapter,  or  shall  fail  to  perform 
any  act  or  thing  required  hereby  shall,  on  conviction,  be  fined  in  a 
sum  of  money  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred 
dollars,  and  if  committed  by  any  such  licensed  porter  or  runner 
herein  provided  for,  his  license  may  be  revoked,  in  the  discretion  of 
the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees. 


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CHAPTER    LIV. 


POUNDS. 

SECTION  i.  No  cows,  horses,  swine,  sheep,  goats  or  geese  shall 
l>e  permitted  to  run  at  large,  or  cattle  of  any  kind  to  be  herded,  or 
run  at  large  within  that  portion  of  The  Town  of  Lake  embraced 
within  the  territory  described  as  follows,  to  wit:  Bounded  on  the 
north  by  Thirty-ninth  street;  on  the  east,  by  State  street;  on  the 
south,  by  Sixty-ninth  street,  and  on  the  west,  by  Halsted  street, — 
under  the  penalty  of  two  dollars  for  each  animal  so  permitted 
to  run  at  large  or  herded,  together  with  the  costs  of  impounding 
and  the  expense  of  sustenance  for  such  animal  or  animals  when 
impounded,  as  hereinafter  provided,  to  be  paid  by  the  owner  or  person 
having  charge,  care  or  keeping  thereof,  severally  and  respectively. 

§  2.  The  supervisor  is  hereby  directed  to  locate  and  construct  two 
good  and  suitable  pounds,  to  be  placed  under  the  care  and  direction 
of  pound-keepers,  to  be  appointed  as  herein  provided. 

§  3.  Each  pound-keeper  shall  before  entering  upon  his  duties 
execute  a  bond  with  sureties  to  be  approved  by  the  supervisor,  in 
the  penal  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars,  conditioned  for  the  faithful 
performance  of  the  duties  of  his  office. 

§  4.  The  board  of  trustees,  during  the  month  of  April  in  each 
year,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  may  be,  shall  elect  one  pound-keeper 
for  each  pound  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  who  shall  hold  office  during 
the  pleasure  of  said  board. 

§  5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  pound-keeper  to  take  up  and 
impound  any  such  animal  or  animals  known  to  him  to  be  running  at 
large  within  the  aforesaid  pound  limits;  and  for  each  neglect  or 
refusal  to  do  so  he  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  five  dollars. 

§  6.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  any  person  over  eighteen  years  of 
age  to  take  up  any  such  animal  or  animals  running  at  large  contrary 
to  the  provisions  of  section  i  of  this  chapter,  and  take  the  same  to 
the  pound  of  said  town,  and  for  so  doing  he  shall  receive  from  the 
treasurer  of  said  town,  when  collected,  an  impounding  fee  of  fifty  cents 
for  each  animal  so  taken  up  and  impounded  by  him.  And  it  shall 


252  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

be  the  duty  of  the  pound-keeper  to  enter  upon  his  books  forthwith  the- 
name  and  residence  of  the  person  so  taking  any  such  animal  to  the 
pound. 

§  7.  There  shall  be  charged  for  each  animal  impounded  an 
impounding  fee  of  fifty  cents,  and  also  fifty  cents  for  each  day  or 
part  of  a  day  for  providing  sustenance  for  each  animal  impounded. 

§  8.  At  any  time  before  the  sale  of  any  animal  or  animals  im- 
pounded, the  owner  or  owners  thereof  may  redeem  the  same  by 
paying  to  the  pound-keeper  the  penalty  prescribed  in  section  i  of 
this  chapter,  together  with  the  impounding  fee  and  costs  of  susten- 
ance as  prescribed  in  the  said  section,  and  in  case  proceedings  shall 
have  been  instituted  before  a  judicial  officer,  the  cost  of  such  pro- 
ceedings and  the  amount  of  the  judgment,  if  judgment  shall  have 
been  recovered  under  this  chapter,  together  with  subsequently  ac- 
crued costs  of  sustenance,  shall  be  the  redemption  money  to  be  paid.. 

§  9.  When  any  animal  or  animals  shall  be  impounded  as  afore- 
said, it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  keeper  of  the  pound  forthwith  to  make, 
complaint  before  some  justice  of  the  peace  of  the  said  town  against 
the  owner  or  owners  of  such  animals  if  known,  and  thereupon  a 
warrant  shall  be  issued,  and  upon  the  return  thereof  executed,  or  the 
defendant  having  appeared,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  justice  to 
inquire  whether  the  defendant  has  been  guilty  of  a  violation  of  this 
chapter;  and  if  the  defendant  be  found  guilty,  judgment  shall  be 
rendered  against  him  for  the  penalty,  impounding  fee,  and  cost  of 
sustenance  herein  prescribed  and  the  costs  of  suit,  and  an  order  shall 
be  entered  that  the  animal  or  animals  shall  be  sold  to  satisfy  said 
judgment,  in  case  the  same  shall  not  be  paid  forthwith.  Such  order 
shall  describe  the  animal  or  animals,  and  state  the  time  and  place  of 
impounding. 

§  10.  When  the  owner  of  any  animal  impounded  shall  be  un- 
known, it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  pound-keeper  where  the  same 
shall  be  impounded  to  make  complaint  as  provided  in  the  last  sec- 
tion, against  the  unknown  owner  of  such  animal,  describing  the  same, 
and  thereupon  the  officer  before  whom  such  complaint  shall  be  made 
shall  issue  a  notice  in  substance  as  follows,  to  wit: 

POUND    NOTICE. 

Whereas,  complaint  has  this  day  been  made  before  me,  that  the  unknown  owner 

of  the  following  described  animals,  to  wit: impounded  at on  the 

day  of A.  D.  18 — ,  has  permitted  the  same  to  run  at  large,  contrary  to  the 

provisions  of  an  ordinance  prohibiting  the  running  at  large  of  certain  animals 
therein  mentioned,  within  the  limits  mentioned. 

Now,  therefore,  notice  is  hereby  given,  that  a  trial  will  be  had  upon  the  said 
complaint,  at  my  office,  in  The  Town  of  Lake,  on  the day  of A.  D. 


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18 — ,  at  the  hour  of  —  m.,  when  and  where   the   unknown  owner  may  appear  and 

defend,  if  he  see  fit  so  to  do.     Witness    my   hand  and    official    seal,  this day  of 

,  A.  D.  18—. 

J.  P.,  or  P.  M.     [L.  s.] 

The  day  named  in  said  notice  for  trial  shall  not  be  less  than  five 
nor  more  than  ten  days  from  the  time  of  issuing  the  same,  and  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  pound-keeper  making  the  complaint  forth- 
with to  post  three  copies  of  said  notice,  one  at  the  pound,  one  at  the 
office  of  the  justice  or  police  magistrate  issuing  the  same,  and  one 
on  a  board  provided  for  that  purpose,  within  the  town  hall  of  said 
town,  and  to  return  the  said  notice,  with  the  time  and  manner  of 
said  posting. 

§  ii.  The  justice  or  police  magistrate  issuing  said  notice  shall 
enter  the  cause  upon  his  docket,  as  follows,' to  wit:  The  Town  of 
Lake  vs.  The  Unknown  Owner  of  [here  specify  the  animals]. 
And  upon  the  return  of  the  notice  prescribed  in  the  last  section,  like 
proceedings  shall  be  had  as  in  the  case  of  personal  service  or  appear- 
ance. 

§  12.  In  all  trials  for  violation  of  this  chapter  the  accused  shall 
have  the  right  of  trial  by  jury,  and  in  proceedings  against  unknown 
owners  the  trial  must  be  by  jury. 

§  13.  Upon  the  rendition  of  any  judgment  as  provided  in  sec- 
tion 9  of  this  chapter,  the  justice  of  the  peace  or  police  magistrate 
rendering  the  same  shall  issue  to  the  keeper  of  the  pound  where  the 
animal  or  animals  are  impounded  an  order  which  shall  be  in  the 
following  form  as  nearly  as  may  be: 

The  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,     To ,  Pound-keeper. 

We  command  you,  that  of  the  following  described  goods  and  chattels,  to  wit:   

,  the  property  of ,  you   make  the  sum  of dollars  and cents 

debt,  and dollars  and cents  costs,  which  The  Town  of  Lake  lately  recovered 

before  me,  against  the  said ,  and  hereof  make  due  return. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal,  this  the day  of ,  A.  D.  18 — . 

,  J.  P.  or  P.M.     [L.  s.] 

§  14.  Upon  the  receipt  of  such  order,  the  pound-keeper  shall 
immediately  post  three  notices  in  like  places  as  provided  in  section 
10  of  this  article,  in  substance  as  follows: 

POUND  NOTICE. 

Taken  up  and  impounded  in  the  town  pound  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  at ,  the 

following  described  animals:     •  —  which,  unless  redeemed,   will  be  sold  at 

public    auction  for  cash  to  the  highest  bidder,  at  said  pound  at  the  hour  of 

o'clock,  in  the  forenoon,  on  the day  of ,  18 — . 

,  Pound-keep  r. 

The  day  of  sale  mentioned  in  said  notice  shall  be  the  third  day 
after  posting  the  same,  exclusive  of  Sundays,  holidays  and    election 


254  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

days,  and  if  said  animal  or  animals  are  not  redeemed,  the  pound- 
keeper  shall  sell  the  same  in  accordance  with  said  notice.  It  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  pound-keeper  receiving  such  order  as  is  prescribed 
in  section  13  of  this  chapter  to  return  the  same  within  twenty 
days  from  its  date  to  the  officer  issuing  the  same,  with  an  indorse- 
ment showing  when  and  how  the  same  was  executed. 

§  15.  No  person  shall  purchase  or  be  interested  directly  or  indi- 
rectly in  the  purchase  of  any  animal  taken  up,  impounded  or  sold 
by  him  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  under  a  penalty  of  not 
less  than  twenty-five  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for 
each  animal,  and  if  a  pound-keeper,  the  forfeiture  of  his  office. 

§  1 6.  If  any  person  shall  break  open,  or  in  any  manner  directly 
or  indirectly  aid  or  assist  in,  or  counsel  or  advise  the  breaking  open 
the  town  pound,  he  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  twenty  dollars. 

§  17.  No  person  shall  hinder,  delay  or  obstruct  any  person 
engaged  in  taking  to  the  pound  any  animal  or  animals  liable  to  be 
impounded,  under  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more 
than  ten  dollars  for  each  animal  so  being  taken. 

§  1 8.  The  pound-keeper  of  said  town  shall  by  the  end  of  each 
month  pay  to  the  town  treasurer  all  moneys  received  by  him,  over 
and  above  the  necessary  expenditures  for  the  maintenance  of  the 
pound  during  the  month  by  virtue  of  his  office  of  pound-keeper, 
and  shall  at  the  end  of  each  month  render  to  the  treasurer  of  the 
town  a  full  statement  on  oath  of  all  the  animals  received  into  his 
pound  during  said  month,  describing  the  same  with  the  names  of  the 
owners,  if  known,  of  the  animals  redeemed,  the  dates  when  received 
respectively,  and  the  dates  of  redemption  of  those  sold  and  the  times 
of  sale,  and  of  all  moneys  received  by  him  during  said  month  for  the 
redemption  or  upon  the  sales  of  animals  or  otherwise  as  pound- 
keeper,  and  of  all  moneys  expended  by  him  in  the  maintenance  of 
the  pound,  and  shall  attach  to  such  statement  receipts  for  all  such 
moneys.  Each  pound-keeper  shall  also  keep  a  record  in  which  he 
shall  enter  from  time  to  time  as  they  occur,  all  matters  required  to 
be  shown  in  such  statements,  and  in  which  he  shall  cause  to  be  writ- 
ten the  receipts  of  owners  of  animals  by  them  redeemed. 

§  19.  When  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  any  animal  or  animals 
shall  exceed  the  amount  of  judgment  and  costs,  and  the  expense  of 
sustenance  which  shall  have  accrued  subsequently  to  the  rendition  of 
the  judgment,  and  such  excess  shall  have  been  paid  to  the  treasurer, 
the  owner  or  owners  of  such  animal  or  animals  shall  be  entitled  to  a 
warrant  on  the  town  treasurer  for  such  excess,  upon  presenting  to 
the  board  of  trustees  satisfactory  evidence  of  his  right  thereto. 


POUNDS RAILROADS.  255 

§  20.  Any  person  who  shall  take  or  drive  any  such  animal 
from  any  enclosed  lot  or  tract  of  ground,  or  from  any  stable  or  other 
building,  or  from  outside  of  any  pound  limits  into  the  limits  of  any 
pound  district,  to  any  pound  in  said  town,  or  with  the  intent  that  such 
animal  may  be  impounded,  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
five  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars  for  every  animal  so  driven  or  taken 
from  the  place  or  places  aforesaid. 

§  21.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  pound-keeper  to  keep  such 
books,  and  in  such  manner  as  the  supervisor  shall  direct,  which  shall 
show,  among  other  things,  all  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  and 
for  his  pound;  and  the  supervisor  shall  at  least  once  a  month  audit 

and  adjust  the  accounts  of  such  pound-keeper. 

» 

§  22.  No  pound-keeper  shall  receive  any  other  compensation  or 
perquisite  than  his  salary  which  shall  be  fixed  by  the  board  of  trustees, 
but  in  case  any  member  of  the  police  force  is  appointed  such  pound- 
keeper,  this  proviso  shall  not  be  so  construed  as  to  affect  his  right  to 
compensation  or  pay  as  such  member  of  the  police  force. 


CHAPTER     LV. 


RAILROADS. 

SECTION  i.  No  railroad  corporation  shall,  by  itself,  agents  or 
employes,  run  any  passenger  train  upon  or  along  any  railroad  track 
within  the  corporate  limits  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  at  a  greater  rate  of 
speed  than  twelve  miles  an  hour;  nor  shall  any  such  corporation,  by 
itself,  agents  or  employes,  run  any  freight  car  or  cars  upon  or  along 
any  railroad  track  within  said  town  at  a  greater  rate  of  speed  than 
eight  miles  per  hour. 

§  2.  No  railway  company,  railroad  engineer,  train  conductor  or 
other  person,  shall  cause  or  allow  any  locomotive  engine,  car  or 
cars,  or  train  of  cars,  to  stop  in  or  remain  upon  any  street  and  rail- 
road crossing  within  said  town  for  a  longer  period  than  five  min- 
utes at  any  one  time:  Provided,  however,  that  in  case  a  collision 
should  take  place  at  any  or  either  of  the  crossings  aforesaid,  reason- 


256  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OE    LAKE. 

able  time  shall  be  allowed  to  remove  any  obstruction  that  may  be 
caused  thereby. 

§  3.  Should  any  street  and  railroad  crossing  in  said  town  be  and 
.remain  occupied  and  obstructed,  in  whole  or  in  part,  by  any  train  of 
railroad  cars  for  and  during  the  period  of  five  minutes,  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  each  and  every  railroad  company  upon  whose  line  of  road 
such  obstruction  may  occur,  their  agents  or  employes,  on  or  before 
the  expiration  of  said  five  minutes,  when  from  any  cause  the  entire 
train  cannot  be  propelled  or  removed  to  either  side  of  any  street 
occupied  and  obstructed  as  aforesaid,  to  cause  such  cars  as  may  be 
on  or  near  said  crossing  to  be  uncoupled,  and  some  one  division  of 
the  train,  as  thus  made,  removed  from  oft"  the  aforesaid  street  and 
railroad  crossing  in  such  manner  as  to  leave  said  street  entirely  free 
and  unobstructed,  and  said  train,  when  again  coupled,  shall  be  re- 
moved forthwith  from  oft"  any  such  crossing  as  aforesaid. 

^  4.  Every  locomotive  engine,  railroad  car  or  train  of  cars  run- 
ning in  the  night  time  on  any  railroad  track  in  said  town,  shall  have 
and  keep,  while  so  running,  a  brilliant  and  conspicuous  light  on  the 
forward  end  of  such  locomotive  engine,  car,  or  train  of  cars.  If 
such  engine  or  train  be  backing,  it  shall  have  a  conspicuous  light 
in  the  rear  car  or  engine,  so  as  to  show  in  the  direction  said  car 
is  moving. 

§  5.  No  company,  corporation  or  person  shall  be  allowed  to 
deposit  or  place  in  the  street,  any  lumber  or  other  material,  nor  shall 
they  load  or  unload  any  car  from  the  street,  nor  erect  or  maintain 
any  switch-house  or  other  building,  upon  any  street,  highway  or 
alley  within  the  town  limits,  except  by  the  written  permission  of  the 
supervisor. 

§  6.  No  railroad  company  shall  cause  or  allow  the  whistle  of 
any  locomotive  engine  to  be  sounded  within  the  town,  except  neces- 
sary brake  signals,  and  such  as  may  be  absolutely  necessary  to  pre- 
vent injury  to  persons,  and  to  property  other  than  their  own,  and  that 
in  their  possession  as  freight. 

§  7.  Each  railroad  company  running  on  any  railroad  within  said 
town,  shall  erect  at  the  entrance  of  such  railroad  within  the  town, 
.  a  signboard,  having  thereon  the  words  "  stop  speed,"  "  ring  the  bell," 
legibly  painted  thereon,  and  keep  the  same  so  erected. 

§  8.  Each  superintendent  of  any  railroad  shall  furnish  each 
engineer  and  train  conductor  of  any  railroad  running  within  the  town 
.a  certified  or  printed  copy  of  this  chapter,  and  shall,  moreover,  fur- 


RAILROADS.  257 

Yiish  to  any  officer  of  said  town  applying  therefor  the  name  of  any  per- 
son in  the  employment  of  said  railroad  company  who  shall  have  been 
charged  with  having  violated  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter. 

•§  9.  No  railroad  company  shall  cause  or  allow  the  cylinder 
-Cock  or  cocks  of  any  or  either  of  their  several  locomotive  engines  to 
be  opened  so  as  to  permit  steam  to  escape  therefrom  at  any  time 
while  running  upon  or  along  any  railroad  track  laid  in  any  street,  or 
when  the  engine  is  in  immediate  proximity  to  any  street  or  railroad 
crossing  in  said  town:  Provided,  however,  that  when  such  engine 
shall  be  standing  at  such  point  in  said  town,  and  for  three  revolutions 
of  the  driving  wheel  after  being  put  in  motion,  the  said  cocks  may 
be  opened  for  the  purpose  of  allowing  condensed  steam  to  escape. 

§  10.  Any  railroad  company  or  railroad  corporation  who  shall 
by  themselves,  their  agents  or  employes,  or  any  agent  or  employe 
of  any  railroad  company  or  railroad  corporation  who  shall  cause  or 
allow  any  empty  railroad  car  or  cars  to  be  detached  from  any  loco- 
motive engine  and  left  to  remain  upon  any  street  or  sidewalk  and 
railroad  crossing  within  said  town,  for  a  longer  period  than  five 
minutes,  shall  be  fined  in  the  sum  of  ten  dollars  for  each  and  every 
consecutive  five  minutes  any  such  railroad  car  or  cars  detached  as 
aforesaid  shall  be  so  permitted  to  remain  on  such  street,  sidewalk  or 
railroad  crossing. 

§11.  Whenever,  on  any  street  crossed  by  the  track  or  tracks  of 
any  railroad  company,  the  board  of  trustees  shall  deem  it  necessary 
to  require  said  railroad  company  to  provide  protection  against  injury 
to  persons  and  property  at  such  crossing  by  the  erection  and  mainte- 
nance of  gates,  guards  or-  other  protection,  or  the  construction  of  a 
viaduct,  said  board  of  trustees  may,  by  resolution,  so  declare  and 
direct  that  any  such  railroad  company  shall,  within  a  specified  time, 
erect,  construct  and  maintain  a  sufficient  safeguard  at  such  cross- 
ing, specifying  the  kind  of  protection  to  be  erected,  constructed  and 
maintained  as  aforesaid,  whether  it  be  a  gate  or  gates,  or  viaduct 
or  other  efficient  protection;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  town 
clerk  to  serve  upon  the  said  railroad  company  named  in  said 
resolution,  a  certified  copy  thereof,  within  three  days  after  the 
passage  of  said  resolution. 

§12.  Whenever  any  railroad  company  shall  have  been  directed  by 
the  board  of  trustees  to  erect,  construct  and  maintain  at  any  street 
crossed  by  its  track  or  tracks,  any  gate  or  gates,  viaduct  or  other 
protection,  as  provided  in  the  last  preceding  section,  every  such 
company  shall  within  the  time  prescribed  erect,  construct  and  there- 
.after  maintain  the  protection  specified  in  said  resolution,  under  the 


258  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

penalty  of  one  hundred  dollars  for  every  offense;  and  each  and 
every  ten  days  after  the  expiration  of  the  time  so  fixed  for  the  con- 
struction of  such  protection,  any  such  company  shall  refuse  or  neglect 
to  proceed  to  the  erection  and  construction  of  the  kind  of  protection 
specified  in  such  resolution,  shall  constitute  a  new  and  distinct  offense. 

§13.  Every  such  gate,  guard,  viaduct  and  the  approaches 
thereto,  or  olher  protection,  when  so  ordered  as  aforesaid,  shall  be 
erected  and  constructed  at  the  sole  cost  and  expense  of  said  railroad 
company,  under  the  supervision  of  the  superintendent  of  public 
works,  and  the  same  shall  forever  thereafter  be  kept  and  maintained 
by  such  railroad  company  in  proper  repair  and  condition,  at  its  own 
cost  and  expense,  and  without  expense  or  cost  to  The  Town  of  Lake, 
under  the  supervision  of  the  said  superintendent  and  to  his  satisfaction. 

§  14.  No  train  of  a  greater  length  than  will  reach  from  one 
street  to  another  shall  be  moved  for  the  purpose  of  transferring  said 
train,  or  any  part  of  it,  to  another  and  opposite  or  adjoining  track  or 
tracks,  in  making  up  trains,  or  distributing  the  same,  except  where 
viaducts  are  provided. 

§15.  No  frog,  switch  rail  or  any  part  of  a  side-track  or  turn- 
out, shall  be  placed  in  or  across  any  portion  of  a  public  street,  with- 
out special  permission  from  the  board  of  trustees;  nor  shall  what 
is  known  as  a  "  running  switch "  be  permitted  along  or  across  a 
public  street. 

§  16.  Any  railroad  company  or  railroad  corporation  who  shall, 
by  themselves,  their  agents  or  employes,  violate  or  fail  to  observe  any 
of  the  foregoing  provisions  of  this  chapter,  or  any  agent  or  employe 
of  any  railroad  company  or  railroad  corporation,  or  other  person, 
who  shall  violate  or  fail  to  observe  the  same,  shall  for  each  violation 
or  failure  to  observe  the  same,  where  no  other  penalty  is  imposed, 
be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  exceeding  one  hun- 
dred dollars,  to  be  recovered  in  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction. 


CHAPTER     LVI. 


SALOONS. 

SECTION  i.     The  board  of   trustees  shall,  from  time    to  time, 
grant  licenses  for  the  sale  of  spirituous,  vinous  and  fermented  liquors 


SALOONS.  259 

to  any  person  who  shall  apply  to  them,  in  writing,  as  provided  in 
section  14  of  this  chapter,  upon  said  person  furnishing  sufficient  evi- 
dence to  satisfy  them  that  he  or  she  is  a  person  of  good  character, 
and  upon  such  person  executing  to  The  Town  of  Lake  a  bond  with 
at  least  two  sureties,  to  be  approved  by  the  board,  in  the  penal  sum 
of  rive  hundred  dollars,  conditional  that  the  licensed  party  shall  faith- 
fully observe  and  keep  all  ordinances  now  in  force,  or  hereafter  to  be 
passed,  during  the  period  of  such  license,  and  that  he  will  keep  closed 
on  Sunday  all  doors  opening  out  upon  any  street  from  the  bar  or 
room  where  such  liquors  are  sold,  and  that  all  windows  opening  upon 
anv  street  from  such  bar  or  room  where  such  liquors  are  sold  shall  be 
on  Sundays  provided  with  blinds,  shutters  or  curtains,  so  as  to  ob- 
struct the  view  from  such  streets  into  such  rooms. 

§  2.  Every  person,  on  compliance  with  these  requirements,  and 
the  payment  to  the  town  treasurer  of  the  sum  of  forty  dollars,  shall 
receive  a  license  under  the  corporate  seal,  signed  by  the  president 
and  countersigned  by  the  clerk,  which  shall  authorize  the  person  or 
persons  therein  named  to  sell,  barter,  give  away  or  deliver  wines 
and  other  liquors,  whether  vinous,  ardent  or  fermented,  in  quantities 
less  than  one  gallon,  in  the  place  designated  in  the  license. 
I 

§  3.  Every  license  so  granted,  unless  sooner  revoked,  shall 
expire  on  the  last  day  of  June  next  thereafter.  It  shall  be  dated 
as  of  the  day  of  application,  and  no  person  shall  be  deemed  to  be 
duly  licensed  to  whom  a  license  has  not  been  actually  issued,  or 
transferred,  as  hereinafter  provided. 

§  4.  Every  common  or  ill-governed  house,  or  house  or  other 
place  kept  by  any  person  licensed  as  aforesaid,  where  any  person  is^ 
permitted  or  suffered  to  play  any  game  of  chance  for  money  or  other 
valuable  thing,  is  hereby  declared  a  disorderly  house;  and  no  person 
shall  keep  or  maintain  such  disorderly  house,  under  the  penalty  of 
not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  each 
offense. 

§  5.  Any  license  so  granted  may  be  revoked  upon  written  notice 
by  the  president,  whenever  it  shall  appear  to  his  satisfaction  that 
the  party  so  licensed  shall  have  violated  any  provision  of  any  ordi- 
nance of  The  Town  of  Lake  relating  to  spirituous  liquors,  or  any 
condition  of  the  bond  aforesaid. 

§  6.    Any  and  all  persons  licensed  under  this  chapter  or  any  ordi- 
nance of  the  town  for  the  sale  of  liquors,  shall  immediately  cause  to 
be  and  remain  posted  upon  some  conspicuous  part  of  the  room  or 
bar  kept  or  used  for  such  purpose,  his  or  their  license. 
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260  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

§  7.  Any  person  so  licensed,  who  shall  not  cause  such  license 
to  be  and  keep  the  same  posted  as  required  in  the  preceding  section, 
or  who,  not  being  licensed,  shall  cause  or  permit  any  paper  or  docu- 
ment purporting  to  be  a  license  to  be  or  remain  posted  as  aforesaid, 
shall,  on  conviction,  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars. 

§  8.  Any  person  who  shall  hereafter  have  or  keep  any  tavern, 
grocery,  ordinary,  victualing  or  other  house  or  place  within  the  town, 
for  the  selling,  giving  away,  or  in  any  manner  dealing  in  any  vinous, 
spirituous,  ardent,  intoxicating  or  fermented  liquors,  in  quantities  less 
than  one  gallon ;  or  who,  by  himself,  his  agents  or  servants,  shall  sell, 
give  away  or  in  any  manner  deal  in  any  vinous,  spirituous,  ardent  or 
fermented  liquors,  in  less  quantities  than  one  gallon,  without  a  license 
for  that  purpose  in  pursuance  hereof,  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof, 
be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hun- 
dred dollars :  Provided,  that  druggists  or  persons  whose  chief  busi- 
ness is  to  sell  drugs  and  medicines  shall  not  be  deemed  to  be  within 
the  provisions  hereof,  in  selling  quantities,  less  than  as  aforesaid,  for 
purposes  purely  medical,  mechanical  or  sacramental. 

§  9.  No  person  shall  hereafter,  by  himself,  his  agent  or  servant, 
solicit,  ask  or  take  any  order  from  any  person  or  persons  within 
said  town,  for  the  sale  or  delivery  of  any  vinous,  spirituous,  ardent, 
intoxicating  or  fermented  liquors,  in  quantities  less  than  one  gallon, 
at  any  other  place  than  that  named  in  such  person's  license,  or  sell, 
offer  for  sale  or  deliver  any  such  vinous,  spirituous,  ardent,  intoxi- 
cating or  fermented  liquors,  in  quantities  less  than  one  gallon  at  any 
other  place  than  that  named  in  his  license,  within  The  Town  of 
Lake,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  fifteen,  nor  more  than  one 
hundred  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  10.  No  person  shall  keep  open  any  saloon,  bar-room  or  tip- 
pling house  during  the  night  time  between  the  hours  of  twelve 
o'clock  midnight,  and  five  o'clock  A.  M.,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less 
than  twenty  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  ofFense. 

§  ii.  Whenever  the  wife,  or  any  other  relative  of  any  person 
habitually  addicted  to  the  use  of  intoxicating  drink,  by  notice  in  writ- 
ing personally  served,  shall  make  a  request  to  any  liquor  dealer  not 
to  sell,  or  in  any  manner  give  away  liquor  to  such  person,  it  shall 
thereafter  be  unlawful  for  such  liquor  dealer  to  sell  or  give  away  any 
liquor  to  such  person.  Any  person  violating  the  provisions  of  this 
section  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more 
than  fifty  dollars  for  each  and  every  offense. 

§  12.  Every  saloon,  grocery,  room  or  place  where  intoxicating 
liquors  are  sold,  in  which  minors  are  permitted  to  drink  intoxicating 


.SALOONS — SCAVENGERS.  26l 

drinks  of  any  kind,  or  play  with  dice,  dominoes,  cards,  balls  or  other 
articles  used  in  gaming,  is  hereby  declared  to  be  a  disorderly  house. 
Every  proprietor  or  keeper  of  such  saloon,  grocery  or  place  where 
such  drinking,  gaming  or  playing  shall  take  place,  as  aforesaid,  shall, 
for  the  first  offense  of  keeping  the  disorderly  house  aforesaid,  be 
subjected  to  a  fine  of  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  and  for  the  second 
offense,  shall  pay  a  fine  of  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars,  and  his 
license  shall  forthwith  be  revoked. 

§  13.  No  license  shall  be  granted  to  keep  a  saloon  within  one 
hundred  and  fifty  feet  of  any  public  park,  parkway,  boulevard, 
public  school  or  church,  nor  in  all  that  portion  of  the  west  half  of 
section  five  (5),  township  thirty-eight  (38)  north,  range  fourteen  (14), 
east  of  the  third  p.  M.,  which  lies  more  than  one  hundred  feet 
east  of  Ashland  avenue. 

§  14.  All  applications  for  license  to  keep  a  saloon  shall  be  made 
to  the  board  of  trustees  in  writing,  signed  by  the  applicant,  and 
accompanied  by  a  petition  of  a  majority  of  the  legal  voters  of  the 
town  residing  within  one-eighth  of  a  mile  from  the  place  where  such 
saloon  is  to  be  kept,  such  petition  shall  also  state  that  the  place 
where  such  saloon  is  to  be  kept  does  not  fall  within  the  restrictions 
prescribed  by  section  13  of  this  chapter,  and  the  license  fee  must 
also  accompany  each  application. 

§  15.  No  person  shall  be  licensed  to  keep  a  saloon  without  first 
giving  bond  in  the  penal  sum  of  t,hree  thousand  dollars,  to  be 
approved  by  the  board  of  trustees,  payable  to  the  people  of  the 
state  of  Illinois,  as  required  by  chapter  43  of  the  revised  statutes  of 
the  state  of  Illinois,  entitled  "  Dram  shops." 

§  16.  No  intoxicating  liquor  shall  be  sold  at  retail  or  given 
away,  nor  shall  any  saloon  be  kept  open  upon  any  general  or  special 
election  day  within  one  mile  of  the  place  of  holding  an  election,  until 
after  the  polls  are  closed. 


CHAPTER     LVII. 


SCAVENGERS. 


SECTION  i.    The  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  shall,  from 
time  to  time,  grant  licenses  to  any  person,  company  or  corporation, 


262  ORDINANCES    OE    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

to  engage  in  the  business  of  emptying,  cleaning  or  removing  the 
contents  of  privy  vaults;  and  every  person,  company  or  corporation 
engaged  in  said  business  shall  be  deemed  a  night  scavenger  within, 
the  meaning  of  this  chapter. 

§  2.  No  person,  company  or  corporation  within  The  Town  of  Lake 
shall  empty,  clean  or  remove  the  contents  of  any  privy  vault,  or  in 
any  manner  engage  in  the  business  of  night  scavenger,  without  first 
having  obtained  a  license  so  to  do,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than 
twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  3.  Every  person,  company  or  corporation  applying  for  suck 
license  shall  pay  to  the  town  treasurer  the  sum  of  ten  dollars,  and 
execute  a  bond  to  the  town  in  the  penal  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars, 
with  not  less  than  two  sureties,  to  be  approved  by  the  president, 
conditioned  that  said  scavenger  will  comply  with  the  provisions  of 
this  chapter,  and  every  ordinance  which  may  be  hereafter  passed  by 
the  board  of  trustees  touching  their  said  employment,  and  will  also- 
comply  with  and  obey  the  directions  and  regulations  of  the  health 
commissioner  of  the  town  made  in  pursuance  of  law. 

§  4.  No  licensed  person,  company  or  corporation  within  The 
Town  of  Lake  shall  remove,  or  cause  to  be  removed,  the  contents  of 
any  privy  vault  without  a  permit  first  obtained  from  the  health  com- 
missioner, under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  for  each 
offense. 

§.  5.  Every  such  permit  shall  give  the  name  of  the  scavenger, 
describe  the  premises  where  the  work  is  to  be  done,  and  state  where 
the  contents  thereof  shall  be  deposited. 

§  6.  Every  scavenger  shall  make  return  to  the  health  commis- 
sioner of  every  permit  issued  to  him,  within  five  days  after  the  work 
shall  have  been  performed,  certifying  to  the  number  of  yards  or  loads 
removed  from  the  vault  or  vaults  therein  described,  and  the  place 
where  the  same  was  deposited,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than 
five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§  7.  The  cleaning,  emptying  and  removing  of  the  contents  of 
privy  vaults  shall  be  done  in  an  inoffensive  manner,  and  any  scaven- 
ger having  begun  any  such  scavenger  work  shall,  without  any  in- 
terruption or  delay,  finish  the  same,  and  shall  in  every  instance  leave 
the  privy  in  as  good  condition  upon  the  vault  as  when  the  work  was 
undertaken. 

§  8.     The  contents  of  privy  vaults  so  removed  by  any  scavenger 


SCAVENGERS.  263 

shall  be  conveyed  in  air-tight  tanks  or  vessels,  and  shall  be  disposed 
of  in  such  a  manner  as  to  cause  no  offense.  Said  tanks  or  vessels 
shall  be  kept  clean  and  inoffensive  when  not  in  actual  use. 

§  9.  Scavengers  who  engage  in  the  business  of  removing  the 
contents  of  privy  vaults  at  night  shall  cause  to  be  painted  upon  the 
wagon  box  of  their  wagons,  in  letters  and  figures,  their  names  and 
the  number  of  their  licenses,  together  with  a  lighted  lamp  with  plain 
glass  fronts  and  sides,  with  the  number  of  the  license  of  such  wagon 
painted  with  black  paint  on  the  sides  and  front  of  each  of  said 
lamps,  in  distinct  and  legible  figures  at  least  two  inches  in  size  and 
so  placed  that  said  lamps  may  be  distinctly  seen,  and  said  number 
easily  read. 

§  10.  No  privy  vault  shall  be  opened,  nor  the  contents  thereof 
•disturbed  or  removed  between  the  hours  of  six  o'clock  A.  M.  and  ten 
o'clock  P.  M.  of  any  day,  nor  shall  such  contents  be  deposited  or 
buried  within  the  town,  except  upon  the  special  permission  of  the 
health  commissioner  of  said  town,  and  in  such  manner  and  places 
as  shall  be  by  him  directed.  And  if  any  night  scavenger  shall  not 
bury  said  contents,  as  above  provided,  and  cover  the  same  so  as  to 
prevent  any  smell  arising  therefrom,  his  license  shall  immediately  be 
forfeited  and  annulled.  Any  person  violating  any  provision  of  this 
section  shall  be  subject  to  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars 
for  each  offense. 

§  ii.  Night  scavengers  shall  be  allowed  to  charge  and  receive 
for  each  load  so  by  them  taken  and  removed,  of  not  less  than  twenty- 
seven  cubic  feet,  a  sum  not  exceeding  five  dollars  for  each  and 
every  load  so  removed. 

§  12.  Whenever,  in  the  opinion  of  the  health  commissioner,  any 
privy  vault  shall  be  offensive  and  need  cleaning,  it  shall  be  his  duty 
to  notify  the  owner,  agent  or  occupant,  to  cleanse  the  same  within  a 
period  named  in  said  notice,  and  unless  the  person  so  notified  shall 
comply  within  the  time  mentioned,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  officer 
to  cause  said  vault  to  be  cleaned  by  one  or  more  of  the  town  scav- 
engers aforesaid,  and  such  person  so  failing  to  comply  with  said 
notice,  shall,  on  conviction  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  five  dol- 
lars nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars:  Provided,  that  nothing  in 
this  section  contained  shall  discharge  the  owner,  agent  or  occupant  of 
the  premises  from  any  liability  otherwise  provided,  to  pay  all  the 
expenses  of  such  cleaning. 

§  13.  In  case  no  owner  or  agent  can  be  found  in  the  town,  such 
officers  shall  cause  such  offensive  vault  to  be  cleaned,  and  in  either 


264  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

case  the  expense  shall  be  collected  as  in  other  cases  of  the  removal 
or  abatement  of  nuisances. 

§  14.  Any  person  without  license  as  aforesaid,  who  shall  en- 
gage in  business  as  night  scavenger,  or  who  shall  undertake  to- 
remove  any  contents  of  any  privy  vault  within  the  town  without 
license  or  permit,  as  aforesaid,  shall,  on  conviction  thereof,  pay  a. 
fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for  each 
offense;  and  any  night  scavenger  so  as  aforesaid  licensed  who 
shall  fail  to  comply  with  any  order,  direction  or  regulation  of  the 
commissioner  of  health,  or  who  shall  violate  any  provision  or  section, 
or  clause  of  any  provision  or  section  of  this  chapter,  where  no  other 
penalty  is  imposed,  shall,  on  conviction  thereof,  pay  a  fine  of  not  less 
than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  and  shall,  at 
the  discretion  of  the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  The 
Town  of  Lake  forfeit  his  license. 


CHAPTER    LVIII. 


SECOND-HAND    DEALERS    AND   KEEPERS 
OF  JUNK    SHOPS. 

SECTION  i.  No  person  shall  use,  exercise  or  carry  on  the  trade- 
or  business  of  a  dealer  in  second-hand  furniture,  household  goods 
or  other  articles,  without  being  specially  licensed  for  such  purpose, 
or  shall  carry  on  any  such  business  at  any  other  house  or  place  than 
the  one  designated  in  such  license,  or  shall  continue  to  carry  on  such 
business  after  such  license  may  have  been  revoked,  under  the  pen- 
alty of  fifty  dollars  for  every  such  offense. 

§  2.  The  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  may  grant  licenses 
to  such  persons  as  shall  produce  to  him  satisfactory  evidence  of 
good  character  to  exercise  or  carry  on  the  business  of  dealing  in 
the  purchase  and  sale  of  second-hand  furniture,  clothes  or  other 
articles,  in  the  said  town. 


SECOND-HAND    DEALERS,    ETC.  2J5 

§  3.  Every  person  receiving  such  license  shall  pay  therefor  th* 
sum  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  the  use  of  the  town. 

§  4.  Every  person  so  licensed  shall  at  the  time  of  receiving  such 
license,  enter,  with  two  sufficient  sureties,  into  a  joint  and  several 
bond  to  The  Town  of  Lake  in  the  penalty  of  five  hundred  dollars, 
conditioned  for  the  due  observance  of  all  such  ordinances  of  the  town 
as  may  be  in  force  or  passed  respecting  dealers  in  second-hand  arti- 
cles, at  any  time  during  the  continuance  of  such  license. 

§  5.  Every  such  dealer  shall  keep  a  book,  in  which  shall  be 
fairly  written,  at  the  time  of  the  purchase  of  any  article  or  thing,  in 
the  way  of  his  or  her  business,  an  accurate  account  and  description 
of  the  article  or  tiling  so  purchased,  the  price  paid  therefor,  the  pre- 
cise time  of  making  such  purchase,  and  the  name  and  residence  of  the 
person  from  whom  such  purchase  was  made. 

§  6.  The  said  book  shall,  at  all  reasonable  times,  be  open  to  the 
inspection  of  the  supervisor,  members  of  the  board  of  trustees  and 
any  member  of  the  police  force.- 

§  7.  Every  such  dealer  who  shall  violate  or  neglect  or  refuse 
to  comply  with  any  or  either  of  the  provisions  of  the  last  two  pre- 
ceding sections  of  this  chapter,  shall  for  every  such  offense  forfeit  and 
pay  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars. 

§  8.  No  dealer  in  second-hand  articles  shall,  during  his  license 
as  such,  receive  or  hold  a  license  to  carry  on  the  business  of  a  pawn- 
broker or  a  keeper  of  a  junk  shop;  and  no  keeper  of  a  junk  shop 
shall,  during  his  license  as  such,  receive  or  hold  a  license  to  carry  on 
the  business  of  a  pawnbroker  or  of  a  dealer  in  second-hand  articles. 

§  9.  Every  license  granted  or  to  be  granted  to  any  dealer  in 
second-hand  articles  or  keeper  of  a  junk  shop,  may  be  revoked  by 
the  president  on  satisfactory  cause  appearing  to  him  for  so  doing. 

§  10.  No  person  shall  use,  exercise  or  carry  on  the  business  of 
a  keeper  of  a  junk  shop,  or  what  is  commonly  called  a  junk  shop, 
for  the  purchase  and  sale  of  junk,  rags  or  old  rope,  paper  or  bag- 
ging, old  iron,  brass,  copper,  tin,  empty  bottles,  slush  or  lead,  with- 
out being  specially  licensed  for  such  purpose  as  aforesaid,  or  shall 
carry  on  any  such  business  at  any  other  house  or  place  than  the  one 
designated  in  such  license,  or  shall  continue  to  carry  on  such  busi- 
ness after  such  license  may  have  been  revoked,  under  the  penalty  of 
twenty-five  dollars  for  every  such  offense. 

§  ii.     The  president  may  grant  licenses  to  such  persons  as  he 


266  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

may  deem  proper,  to  keep  what  are  commonly  called  junk  shops,  for 
the  purchase  and  sale  of  junk,  old  rope,  old  iron,  brass,  copper,  tin 
and  lead,  rags,  slush  and  empty  bottles. 

§  12.  Every  person  receiving  such  license  shall  pay  therefor 
-the  sum  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  the  use  of  the  town. 

§  13.  Every  person  so  licensed  shall  at  the  time  of  receiving 
such  license,  enter  with  sufficient  surety  into  a  joint  and  several  bond 
to  The  Town  of  Lake,  in  the  penal  sum  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  dol- 
lars, conditioned  for  the  due  observance  of  such  ordinances  of  the 
town  as  may  be  passed  or  in  force  respecting  the  keeping  of  junk 
shops  at  any  time  during  the  continuance  of  such  license. 

§  14.  No  keeper  of  a  junk  shop  shall  buy  or  sell  any  coin  of 
any  description,  or  any  article  of  gold  or  silver,  or  any  wearing 
apparel,  or  any  article  of  household  furniture,  or  any  implement, 
tool  or  utensil,  in  a  sound,  unbroken  or  undamaged  condition;  nor 
shall  such  keeper  receive  in  the  line  of  his  business,  any  article  or 
thing  by  way  of  pledge  or  pawn;  nor  shall  he  or  she  loan  or 
advance  any  sum  of  money  on  the  security  of  any  such  article  or 
thing. 

§  15.  Every  keeper  of  a  junk  shop  shall  provide  and  keep  a 
book,  in  which  shall  be  fairly  written  at  the  time  of  every  purchase, 
a  description  of  the  article  so  purchased,  the  name  and  residence  of 
the  person  from  whom  such  purchase  was  made,  and  the  day  and 
hour,  of  such  purchase. 

§  1 6.  Every  such  book  .shall  at  all  times  be  open  to  the  inspec- 
tion of  the  president,  any  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  and  any 
member  of  the  police  force. 

§  17.  Every  such  keeper  of  a  junk  shop  who  shall  violate  or 
neglect,  or  refuse  to  comply  with  the  foregoing  provisions  of  this 
chapter,  or  either  of  them,  shall  for  every  such  offense  forfeit  and  pay 
the  sum  of  twenty-five  dollars. 

§  1 8.  No  person  shall  keep  what  is  commonly  called  a  junk 
shop  for  the  purchase  and  sale  of  junk,  rags  or  old  rope,  paper  or 
bagging,  old  iron,  brass,  copper,  tin,  empty  bottles,  slush  or  lead; 
and  no  person  shall  draw  or  drive,  or  procure  to  be  drawn  or  driven, 
through  the  streets  of  this  town,  any  hand-cart,  wheelbarrow  or  other 
cart  or  vehicle,  for  the  purpose  of  collecting  junk,  rags,  old  rope, 
paper  or,  bagging,  old  iron,  brass,  copper,  tin,  empty  bottles,  slush 
or  lead;  nor  shall  any  person  be  entitled  to  have  a  cart  or  carts,  or 


SECOND-HAND    DEALERS,    ETC.  267 

other  vehicle  or  vehicles  to  be  used  for  the  aforesaid  purpose,  with- 
out being  first  licensed  by  the  president  for  such  purpose. 

§  19.  Every  licensed  keeper  of  a  junk  shop,  for  the  purchase 
and  sale  of  rags,  old  rope,  old  iron,  brass,  copper,  empty  bottles,  tin, 
slush  or  lead,  shall  be  entitled  to  keep  one  or  more  carts,  wagons 
or  other  vehicles,  for  the  purpose  of  collecting  old  junk,  rags,  old 
rope,  old  iron,  brass,  copper,  empty  bottles,  tin,  slush  or  lead  in  The 
Town  of  Lake:  Pro-ddcd,  he  or  she  shall  before  using  such  carts, 
wagons,  or  other  vehicles,  or  causing  the  same  to  be  used,  cause  to 
be  painted  on  the  outer  side  of  such  hand-carts,  wheel-barrows 
or  other  carts  or  vehicles,  his  name  at  length,  the  street  and 
number  of  his  place  of  business,  the  number  of  his  license  in  plain 
letters  and  figures  put  on  with  paint,  of  not  less  than  two  and  a  half 
inches  in  length. 

§  20.  A  separate  license  shall  be  obtained  by  the  owner  thereof 
for  each  and  every  cart,  wagon  or  other  vehicle;  and  the  owner  of 
every  such  licensed  cart  or  other  vehicle,  shall  procure  for  every 
such  cart  or  other  vehicle,  one  metal  badge  containing  the  license 
number  of  such  cart,  and  no  person  shall  buy  or  sell,  or  solicit  for 
the  purchase  or  sale  of  any  rags,  paper,  bottles,  old  metal  or  junk 
of  any  description,  unless  he  have  such  badge  conspicuously  dis- 
played upon  his  person,  under  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five 
dollars  for  every  offense.  The  form  and  material  of  such  badges 
shall  be  determined  by  the  president. 

§  21.  Every  owner  of  a  cart,  wagon  or  other  vehicle,  on  receiv- 
ing his  or  her  license,  shall  pay  for  each  and  every  cart,  wagon  or 
other  vehicle,  to  the  town  treasurer  for  the  use  of  said  town  the  sum 
of  five  dollars  annually. 

§  22.  In  case  any  person  so  licensed  as  aforesaid,  either  as  a 
dealer  in  second-hand  articles  or  keeper  of  a  junk  shop,  shall  remove 
his  or  her  store  or  place  of  business  from  the  place  designated  in 
said  license,  he  or  she  shall  immediately  thereupon  give  notice  to 
the  clerk  and  have  the  same  indorsed  upon  such  license,  and  the 
number  of  his  or  her  place  of  business  shall  thereupon  be  changed 
on  the  sides  of  the  vehicle  used  by  such  licensed  dealer,  and  made 
to  correspond  with  such  change  of  store  or  place  of  business. 

§  23.  No  dealer  in  second-hand  articles  or  keeper  of  a  junk 
shop  shall  purchase  any  goods,  article  or  thing  whatsoever,  except 
old  rags  and  waste  paper,  from  any  minor  under  the  age  of  eighteen 
years,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  fifty 
dollars  for  each  offense. 


268  ORDINANCES  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE. 

§  24.  No  dealer  in  second-hand  articles  or  keeper  of  a  junk 
shop  shall  purchase  in  the  way  of  his  or  her  business  any  goods,  arti- 
cle or  thing  whatsoever,  from  any  person  or  persons  whomsoever, 
between  the  hours  of  10  o'clock  p.  M.  and  6  o'clock  A.  M.,  under  the 
penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  every  such  offense. 

8  25.  Every  license  to  be  granted  to  any  dealer  in  second-hand 
articles  or  keeper  of  a  junk  shop,  shall  designate  the  house  or  place 
in  which  the  person  receiving  such  license  shall  be  authorized  to 
carry  on  such  business. 

§26.  Every  such  license  shall  continue  in  force  until  the  last 
day  of  June  next  following  the  granting  thereof,  unless  sooner 
revoked  by  the  president,  and  no  longer. 

§27.  If  anv  goods,  article  or  thing  shall  be  advertised  in  any 
newspaper  printed  in  county  of  Cook  as  having  been  lost  or 
stolen,  and  if  the  said  goods,  article  or  thing,  or  any  such  answering. 
to  the  description  of  the  goods,  article  or  thing  so  advertised,  or  any 
part  or  portion  thereof,  shall  then  be  or  thereafter  come  into  the  pos- 
session of  any  dealer  in  second-hand  articles  or  keeper  of  a  junk 
shop,  he  or  she  shall  forthwith  give  information  thereof,  in  writing, 
at  the  office  of  the  captain  of  police,  and  shall  also  state  from 
whom  the  same  were  received,  under  the  penalty  of  one  hundred- 
dollars  for  every  neglect  or  offense. 

§  28.  Every  dealer  in  second-hand  articles  or  keeper  of  a  junk 
shop  who  shall  receive  or  be  in  possession  of  any  goods,  articles  or 
things  which  may  have  been  lost  or  stolen,  or  alleged  or  supposed 
to  have  been  lost  or  stolen,  shall  forthwith  on  a  demand  to  view  the 
same,  present  the  same  to  the  president  or  any  member  of  the  police 
force,  under  the  penalty  of  fifty  dollars  for  every  neglect  or  refusal 
to  do  so. 

§  29.  The  captain  of  police,  aided  and  assisted  by  such  police- 
men as  he  may  deem  necessary,  shall  be  the  inspector  of  pawn- 
brokers, dealers  in  second-hand  articles,  junk  shops  and  intelligence 
offices. 

§  30.  Whoever  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter 
where  no  other  penalty  is  provided,  shall  be  subject  to  a  penalty  of 
not  less  than  ten  dollars  for  every  such  offense. 


WEIGHERS.  269 


CHAPTER     LIX. 


WEIGHERS. 

SECTION  i.  The  supervisor  shall  from  time  to  time  appoint  so 
many  and  such  persons  to  be  town  weighers  as  he  may  think 
proper,  and  may  remove  them  at  his  pleasure. 

§  2.  Every  town  weigher  shall,  for  the  faithful  performance  of 
his  duties,  execute  a  bond  to  The  Town  of  Lake,  in  the  sum  of  five 
hundred  dollars,  with  sureties  to  be  approved  by  the  supervisor, 
conditioned  for  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duties. 

§  3.  Each  of  said  weighers  so  appointed  shall  provide  his  own 
scales,  which  shall  be  of  the  most  approved  pattern  in  use,  and  shall 
locate  them  and  keep  them  properly  adjusted  and  repaired  at  his 
own  expense. 

§  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  weighers  so  appointed  to  have 
their  scales  adjusted  and  sealed  by  the  sealer  of  weights  and  meas- 
ures at  least  once  in  every  three  months,  and  oftener  if  required.. 
It  shall  further  be  their  duty  to  weigh  any  coal,  hay  or  any  other 
article,  when  so  requested  by  the  person  or  persons  bringing  the 
same. 

§  5.  The  weighers  so  appointed  shall  have  power  to  appoint 
all  necessary  deputies  to  attend  said  scales,  and  the  official  bond  of 
said  weigher  shall  be  holden  and  answerable  for  the  acts  of  said 
deputies. 

§  6.  Said  weighers  shall,  either  in  person  or  by  such  deputy, 
be  present  at  their  individual  scales  during  all  reasonable  hours  each 
day,  Sundays  and  public  holidays  excepted. 

§  7.  The  said  weighers  shall  be  allowed  to  charge  and  receive 
ten  cents  for  every  load  or  part  of  a  load,  or  other  article  of  any 
kind  or  nature  whatsoever  weighed  by  them,  and  shall  keep  an 
account  of  the  weight  of  every  load  by  them  weighed,  and  shall 
furnish  to  the  person  having  such  load  weighed  a  certificate  for  each 
load,  which  certificate  shall  contain  the  gross  and  net  weight  of  each 
load  weighed  by  him. 


27O  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

§  8.  The  said  town  weighers  shall  severally  provide  themselves 
with,  and  each  shall  keep,  a  book  in  which  he  shall  enter  the  amount 
of  each  load,  and  the  name  of  each  person  for  whom,  and  the  date 
when  the  same  was  weighed;  and  when  the  vehicle  and  load  shall 
be  weighed  together,  the  town  weigher's  certificate  shall  state  the 
gross  weight  thereof,  and  upon  the  sale  or  delivery  of  said  load,  the 
vehicle  shall  again  be  weighed,  without  charge,  by  the  town  weigher, 
who  weighed  the  original  load,  and  thus  the  net  weight  of  the  load 
be  ascertained. 

§  9.  In  no  case  shall  any  town  weigher  state  in  his  said  certificate 
the  weight  of  any  vehicle  which  may  have  been  weighed  with  any 
load,  until  such  town  weigher  shall  have  ascertained  the  weight  of 
such  vehicle  by  actually  personally  weighing  the  same  on  his  said 
scales. 

§  10.  No  person  shall  alter  any  certificate  of  any  town  weigher, 
or  use  or  attempt  to  use  the  same  for  any  other  load  or  parcel  than 
the  one  for  which  the  same  was  given,  nor,  after  the  weighing  and 
before  the  sale  and  delivery  of  any  load  or  parcel,  diminish  the  quan- 
tity thereof. 

§  ii.  The  supervisor  shall  be  permitted,  by  himself  or  his  agent, 
to  examine  at  his  pleasure,  the  books  required,  as  aforesaid  to  be 
kept  by  the  town  weighers. 


CHAPTER    LX. 


WEIGHTS  AND  MEASURES. 

SECTION  i.  There  shall  be  a  regulation  of  weights  and  measures 
in  The  Town  of  Lake,  and  the  standard  adopted  by  the  State  of 
Illinois  shall  be  the  test  by  which  they  shall  be  compared  and  deter- 
mined. 

§  2.  The  supervisor,  at  the  expense  of  the  town,  shall  procure 
correct  and  approved  standards  of  weights  and  measures,  with  their 
necessary  subdivisions,  together  with  the  proper  beams  and  scales, 
for  the  purpose  of  testing  and  proving  by  said  standards  the  weights 
and  measures  in  the  town. 


WEIGHTS    AND    MEASURES.  27! 

§  3.  The  board  of  trustees,  during  the  month  of  April  in  each 
year,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  may  be,  shall  appoint  a  sealer  of 
weights  and  measures,  who  shall  hold  office  during  the  pleasure  of 
said  board. 

^  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  sealer  of  weights  and  measures, 
at  least  once  in  every  year,  to  examine  and  test  the  accuracy  of  all 
weights,  measures,  scales  or  other  instruments  or  things  used  by 
any  person  for  weighing  or  measuring  any  article  for  sale  in  said 
town;  to  stamp  with  a  suitable  seal  all  weights,  measures  and  scales 
so  used  which  he  may  find  correct,  and  deliver  to  the  owner  thereof 
a  certificate  of  their  accuracy;  to  condemn  all  weights,  measures 
and  scales  which  he  may  find  incorrect  on  such  inspection,  and  to 
cause  the  owner  thereof  to  have  them  immediately  corrected  and 
made  conformable  to  said  standard. 

^  5.  No  person  shall  make  use  of  any  weight,  scale,  measure  or 
other  instrument  or  thing  for  weighing  or  measuring  any  article  for 
sale  in  the  town,  until  the  same  has  been  examined  and  sealed  by 
the  sealer  of  weights  and  measures,  nor  after  the  same  has  been 
condemned  by  said  sealer.  No  person  shall  refuse  to  exhibit  any 
weights,  measures,  scales,  instruments  or  things  for  weighing  or 
measuring,  to  the  sealer  of  weights  and  measures,  for  the  purpose 
of  examination  and  inspection,  nor  obstruct  or  hinder  him  in  the 
performance  of  his  duties. 

§  6.  No  person  shall  alter  any  weights,  measures,  scales  or 
instruments  which  have  been  sealed,  causing  the  same  to  weigh  or 
measure  incorrectly. 

§  7.  The  sealer  of  weights  and  measures  shall  be  allowed  to 
demand  and  receive  of  the  person  for  whom  he  shall  perform  ser- 
vice, the  following  fees  and  compensation: 

(1)  For  inspecting   and  sealing  hay,  coal,  dormant,  depot  and 
hopper  scales,  each  one  dollar. 

(2)  For   inspecting    and   sealing   scales    or   beams   of    greatcre 
capacity  than  above  enumerated,  each  two  dollars. 

(3)  For  inspecting   and   sealing  any  kind  of    scales  or  beams 
other  than  above  enumerated,  each  twenty-five   cents;  and    with 
each  scale  sealed  by  him  he  shall  inspect  and  seal  one  set  of  weights, 
without  any  additional  charge  or  compensation. 

(4)  For  inspecting  and  sealing  any  dry  measure,  each  five  cents. 

(5)  For  inspecting  and  sealing  liquid  measures  of  a  capacity  of 
five  gallons  and  upwards,  each  ten  cents;  and  of  less  capacity,  each 
five  cents. 


272  ORDINANCES    OF    THE    TOWN    OF    LAKE. 

(6)  For  inspecting  and  sealing  any  board  or  cloth  measure,  each 
iive  cents;  and  in  every  case  where  he  may,  at  the  request  of  the 
owner,  employ  labor  or  material  in  making  any  scale,  weight  or 
measure  accurate,  he  shall  be  entitled  to  a  just  compensation  there- 
for. 

§  8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  sealer  of  weights  and  meas- 
ures to  establish  and  keep  an  office,  open  at  least  one  hour  per  day, 
within  the  limits  of  the  town,  and  to  designate  by  card,  or  other- 
wise, the  time  during  which  he  may  be  found  in  such  office;  and  it 
shall  be  his  duty  to  make  a  regular  register  of  all  weights,  meas- 
ures, scales,  beams,  instruments  or  things  inspected  by  him,  in  which 
lie  shall  state  the  names  of  the  owners  of  the  same,  and  whether 
they  conform  to  the  standard;  and  it  shall  also  be  his  duty  to  report 
to  the  board  of  trustees  the  names  of  all  persons  whose  weights, 
.scales,  beams  and  measures  are  incorrect,  'and  to  deliver  a  copy  of 
his  said  register  to  the  town  clerk. 

§  9.  No  itinerant  pedler  or  hawker  shall  use  any  scales,  weights, 
balances  or  measures  unless  the  same  shall  have  been  sealed  and  ad- 
justed within  the  municipal  year,  and  show  his  certificate  from  such 
sealer  upon  demand  of  any  citizen. 


CHAPTER     LXI. 


REPEAL. 

SECTION  i.  All  public  or  general  ordinances,  or  parts  thereof, 
•not  included  .in  this  ordinance,  are  hereby  repealed,  so  far  as  they 
conflict,  or  are  inconsistent  with  the  provisons  of  this  ordinance. 
Private  or  special  ordinances,  orders,  and  resolutions  passed  by  the 
board  of  trustees,  are  not  repealed,  unless  repugnant  to  the  pro- 
visions of  this  ordinance. 

§  2.  This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and 
after  its  passage. 


INDEX. 


A. 


ACKNOWLEDGMENT  :                                                                                  Section.  Page 

Of  official  bonds 1  40 

.AMUSEMENTS: 

Chairs,  or  other  obstructions  in  aisles 12  158 

Concerts  in  saloons,  permit  for  necessary 8  157 

Defacing  hand-bills  prohibited  10  157 

Doors  in  public  halls  to  open  outward 13  158 

Entertainments,  what  they  include 5  157 

Fee  for  license,  rate  of 2  156 

Games  not  allowed  on  Sunday 17  158 

Licenses  required  1  156 

Licenses  to  forbid  gaming 7  157 

Licenses  subject  to  ordinances 6  157 

Liquors  not  to  be  sold  in  public  halls 11  158 

Owners  of  hall  may  obtain  license  exempting  lessees 4  156 

Owners  of  halls  to  keep  special  police 15  158 

Owners  to  see  that  license  is  obtained 9  157 

Penalty  for  obstructing  aisles 12  158 

Police  to  remove  obstructions  from  aisles 14  158 

Standing  in  doorways  of  public  halls  forbidden 16  158 

Town  clerk  to  issue  license 3  156 

ALMS  : 

Soliciting  in  public  streets  or  private  premises  prohibited 42  233 

ANIMALS   (See  Horses;  also  Pounds). 
.APPEAL   (See  Special  Assessments). 

APPROPRIATIONS  : 

Clerk  to  file  certificate  of,  with  county  clerk 8  9 

County  clerk  to  include  sum  appropriated  in  next  tax  warrant  8  9 

ARMORIES   (See  Buildings;  also  Streets). 

ARRESTS  (See  also  Imprisonment;  also  Police): 

Affidavit  for  warrant  for  violating  ordinances 1  54 

ASHES   (See  Fire). 

ASSESSMENT    (See  Taxes;  also  Special  Assessments). 

ASSESSOR: 

Ex  officio  commissioner  of  special  assessments 5  8 

ATTORNEY   (See  Town  Attorney). 

AUCTIONS  AND  AUCTIONEERS: 

Buyers  may  return  articles 9  160 

Co-partners  and  clerks  only  to  sell 12  161 

Co-partners  and  clerks  subject  to  penalties 13  161 

Crying  of  sales  not  allowed 3  159 

(273) 


274 


INDEX. 


AUCTIONS  AND  AUCTIONEERS,  continued:                                        Section.  Page. 

Forbidden  in  streets  without  permit 1  159 

License,  how  obtained 4  159 

License  of,  tee  for 4  159 

Licenses  of,  when  expire,  revocation  of. .• 6  159 

Misrepresentations  at  forbidden 11  160 

Not  to  sell  at  other  place  without  permit 16  161 

On  death  of,  co-partner  to  continue 15  161 

Property  sold  not  to  he  on  sidewalks 14  161 

Sales  at  to  be  licensed 2  159 

Sale  without  license  prohibited 7  160 

Sales  under  execution  need  no  license 2  159 

Substituting  articles  forbidden 10  160 

To  truthfully  describe  jewelry  before  selling 8  160 


B. 

BAIL: 

Special  bail  for  persons  under  arrest 6,  7  and  8  95 

BARBED  WIRE  : 

Barbs  or  spikes  on  fences  prohibited 10  228 

BARNS  (See  Buildings  and  Nuisances). 

BASE  OR  DATUM  (See  Grades). 

BAY  WINDOWS  (See  Buildings  and  Sidewalks). 

BEAR: 

Bear  in  streets 34  232 

BELLS: 

Sleighs  or  cutters  to  have  bells 41  233- 

BIDS  (See  Contracts;  also  advertisements). 
BILLIARD  TABLES  (See  Saloons). 
BITCHES  (See  Dogs). 
BOARD  OF  HEALTH  (See  Supervisor). 

BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES  (See  also  Trustees): 

Fine  of  members  not  attending  meeting 1  81' 

May  adjourn  meetings 7  9 

May  appoint  officers  and  employees 3  82 

Mav  appoint  policemen  and  prescribe  duties 13  14 

May  appropriate  money 8  9 

May  call  for  reports 4  82 

May  fill  vacancies 3  82 

May  hold  special  meetings 7  9 

May  provide  place  of  imprisonment  and  appoint  keeper 14  14 

Mat  regulate  sale  of  combustible  materials 35  15 

Mav  remove  or  suspend  officers 3  82 

Meetings  of. 7  9 

Members  may  examine  books  and  accounts 4  82' 

Members  not  to  be  interested  in  contracts 9  10 

Members  to  take  oath 7  9 

Organization  to  continue 38  15 

Per  diem  of  members 10  10 

Per  diem  of  members 2  82 

Power  to  construct  sidewalks,  sewers,  etc (2)  15  14 

Power  to  open,  alter,  vacate  streets,  and  keep  in  repair (1)  15  14 

Present  report  to  voters  of  monev  appropriated 9  10 

Rules  of. ". 7  9 

To  license  and  restrain  tavern  keepers,  grocers,  etc (3)  11  10 

Yeas  and  nays  to  be  called  on  votes  appropriating  moneys 10  10- 


INDEX.  275 

BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES,  continued:                                                       Section.  Page. 
General  J-'wi-r.*  of: 

To  appoint  policemen  and  prescribe  powers  of. (24)  11  13 

To  authori/e  president  to  grant  licenses (5)  11  11 

To  compel  removal  or  abatement  of  nuisances (  8)  11  11 

To  control  and  regulate  streets,  etc (12)  11  11 

To  define  and  abate  nuisances (15)  11  12 

To  direct  and  regulate  planting  of  trees  in  streets (14)  11  12 

To  establish  and  regulate  p'ounds (13)  11  11 

To  license  or  restrain  breweries  or  other  obnoxious  estab- 
lishments   (16)  11  12 

To  make,  publish,  ordain,  amend  or  repeal  ordinances (25)  11  13 

To  make  regulations  to  prevent  spread  of  disease (11)  11  11 

To  prevent  dog  fights,  etc.,  or  disorderly  conduct (21)  12  12 

To  prevent  dogs  running  at  large,  or  tax  or  kill  the  same.   (10)  11  11 

To  prevent  indecent  exhibition  of  animals (23)  11  13 

To  prevent  riot  or  disturbance (6)  11  11 

To  punish  for  resisting  officer (20)  11  12 

To  regulate  billiard  tables,  etc (4)  11  11 

To  regulate  sale  of  liquor (2)  11  10 

To  regulate  shooting  of  fire-arms (19)  11  12 

To  restrain  cutting,  etc.,  of  trees,  etc.,  or  writing  bawdy 

words (18)  11  12 

To  restrain  deposit  of  night  soil,  animals,  etc (17)  11  12 

To  restrain  gaming,  etc (  1)  11  10 

To  restrain  running  at  large  of  animals (  9)  11  11 

To  require  railroads  to  keep  road  in  proper  repair  and  reg- 
ulate trains (22)  11  12 

To  suppress  and  restrain  disorderly  houses (7)  11  11 

BONDS  (See  also  Official  Bonds;  also  Corporate  Indebtednes) : 

For  coach  license 4  165 

For  keeping  coach,  etc.,  for  hire 4  165 

House-movers  to  execute 74  and  75  112-3 

Junk  dealers 13  266 

Keepers  of  intelligence  offices 4  222 

Official  paper  to  furnish 7  240 

Pawnbrokers 4  243 

Plumbers 2  124 

Porters  and  runners 1  248 

Pound  keepers 3  251 

Saloon  bonds,  how  taken 5  42 

Saloon  keepers 1  258 

Saloon  keepers,  under  State  law 15  261 

Scavengers 8  262 

Second-hand  dealers 4  265 

Municipal: 

Act  relating  to  county  and  city  debts '  31 

Auditor  not  to  register  without  certificate  of  compliance  with 

law 4  85 

Auditor  to  certify  rate  of  taxation 5  35 

Auditor  to  fix  and  certify  rate  of  taxation 2  38 

Auditor  to  register  new  bonds 4  84 

Authorities  may  negotiate,  when 1  83 

By  whom  executed 11  38 

Canceled  bonds  to  be  destroyed 4  34 

Certificate  of  valuation  to  be  endorsed  on  back  of  bond 2  38 

Collectors' fees,  and  bonds  for  collecting 10  87 

County  collector  may  pay  coupons 5  35 

Coupons  may  be  endorsed 3  162 

County  and  town  officers  to  certify  rate  required 4  35 

Election  to  authorize  issue  new  bonds,  how  conducted, notice  of.  3  33 

19 ' 


276  INDEX. 

BONDS,  continued:                                                                                     Section.  Page. 

Emergency 2  40 

Entry  of  payment 9  37 

Funds,  how'invested 3  39 

Funds  in  hands  of  State  how  disbursed 7  36 

How  made  payable  to  party  named 1  162 

Indorsement  on 2  162 

Interest  on  new  bond's 1  32 

Laws  in  relation  to  payment  of  shall  apply 7  37 

Matured  bonds  mav  be  registered 8  37 

New  bonds,  amount  of  not  to  be  greater 1  32 

New  bonds,  classification  of 1  32 

New  bonds  for  old  indebtedness,  how  issued 1  39 

New  bonds  may  be  issued,  when 1  31 

•New  bonds  may  be  sold,  when  and  how 1  32 

New  bonds  shall  be  of  uniform  style 1  32 

Power  to  issue  bonds  not  repealed 3  34 

State  auditor  to  negotiate 1  32 

State  not  liable  for 6  36 

State  to  pay  bonds  from  taxes 6  36 

Town  may  provide  sinking  fund  for  payment 1  38 

Town  shall  vote  on  issue  of  new  bonds 1  33 

Valuation  of  taxable  property  to  be  endorsed  on  bonds 2  33 

BONE  BOILING  (See  Health;  also  Nuisances  and  Bone  Factories). 

BONFIRES: 

Fine  for  building  bonfires,  exceptions  2  181 

BOUNDARIES: 

Of  the  Town  of  Lake 2  7 

BREAD : 

Bakers  to  have  permit 4  163 

Biscuits,  buns,  etc.,  not  to  be  weighed /. 8  164 

Police  to  examine  bakeries  and  report 5  163 

Sale  of  unwholesome  forbidden 3  163 

Sale  of  returned  and  unwholesome  bread  forbidden 1  162 

Seizure  of — held  until  payment  of  fine Sand  6  163 

To  be  sold  bv   avoirdupois  weight 1  162 

Weight  of  kTaves '. 2  162 

BREWERIES  (See  Health). 

BRIBERY: 

Persons  convicted  of  not  eligible 4  3 

BRICK  (See  Buildings). 

BROTHELS  (See  Houses  of  111  Fame). 

BUILDINGS: 

Alterations  or  additions  to 73  112 

Awnings  on 61  110 

Bake  ovens,  etc.,  not  to  rest  on  wood  floors 54  110 

Basement,  what  constitutes 65  111 

Bay  or  oriel  windows,  projection  of. 38  107 

Bay  windows,  height  from  sidewalk 38  107 

Belting,  etc.,  in  factories  to  be  protected 45  109 

Boiler  rooms,  floors  of. '. 52  110 

Built  in  accordance  with  rules 3  100 

Business  building,  what  constitutes 63  110 

Chimneys  and  flues  of. 25  105 

Chimneys  1,800  square  inches,  length  of. 27  106 

Combustibles  not  to  accumulate 42  108 

Construction  of  walls 32  106 

Cupolas  in  foundries 56  110 

Cut  stone  facings  and  ashlar  fronts 15  103 


INDEX. 


277 


BUILDINGS,  continued ' :                                                                             Section.  Page. 

Danger  light  to  be  placed 72  H2 

Division  walls  of  business  buildings 23  104 

Doors  and  stairway  for  escape  of  employes 43  JQQ 

Dwelling  houses,  copings,  etc.,  of 22  104 

Dwelling  houses,  table  of  walls 21  104 

Dwelling  houses,  walls  of 18, 19  and  20  103-4 

Egress  of  theatres,  etc.,  to  open  outward,  size  of. 40  1Q7 

Enclosing  walls  of. 4,  5,  6  and  7  100-1 

Ends  of  joists  to  be  protected  35  197 

Fees  for  permit  and  use  of  water 71  jj2 

Fire  proof  vault  for  combustibles 42  1Q8 

Floors  under  stoves  to  be  protected 50  1Q9 

Foundations  of 28  106 

Front  and  rear  walls  of 8  101 

Furnaces  to  be  on  brick  or  stone  foundations 49  JQ9 

Guy  ropes  and  iron  bands  and  posts 68  111 

Headers  shall  be  fixed  in  iron  stirrups 36  ]Q7 

Headers — stock  joints — walls  anchored  to  timbers 29  106 

Height  of,  how  measured 66  111 

Height  of  stories  in  10  101 

Hollow  walls 30  106 

Hot  air  conductors  in 49  jQ9 

Increase  in  height  of  walls  12  102 

Interior  walls  of. 9  iQl 

Iron  fronts,  backing  of. 31  106 

Joint  and  party  Hues oy  JQJJ 

Joists  and  girders,  dimensions  of. 3(5  107 

Joists,  rest  on  projections  of  brick 35  107 

License  for  moving 74  n2 

License  for  public  halls  shall  state  capacity 82  114 

Main  floor  of  public  halls,  elevation  of 81  114 

Manufactories  to  have  two  stairways 41  1Q8 

Metallic  leaders 33  1Q6 

Nuisances  to  be  abated — penalty 84  114 

Officers  to  enter 67  111 

Old  party  walls 16  103 

Outside  walls  of  trussed  roofed  buildings 13  102 

Passage  way  in  front  of,  when  being  built 72  112 

Penalties  for  violating  ordinance 83  114 

Penalty  for  not-complying  with  ordinance 48  109 

Permit  for 75  113 

Permit  required  for  constructing 1  iQO 

Permits  to  build,  how  obtained 70  \\\ 

Pipes  let  into  joists 59  HQ 

Portable  boilers  in,  floors  to  be  protected 53  no 

Porticos  may  extend  over  building  line 38  107 

Public  halls,  defined 77  113 

Public  halls,  permit  to  erect 78  H3 

Public  halls,  stairways  and  entrances  to 80  114 

Repair  of  roofs,  windows  and  doors 47  1Q9 

Roofs  to  be  reached  by  scuttle  or  ladder 34  107 

Rear  wall  of  three  story  buildings 24  105 

•Solid  buttresses,  deduction  for 14  102 

Space  under  sidewalks,  how  used 69  111 

Stairway  for  each  twenty-five  feet  front '. 44  108 

Stairways  in  public  halls 79  113 

Steam  pipes,  how  protected 58  HO 

Storage  of  petroleum,  etc.,  manner  of  construction 39  107 

'Thickness  of  walls,  table  of. 11  102 

•Unprotected  heaters  or  lights  not  allowed   where  hay,  etc.,  is 

stored 57  no 


278  INDEX, 

BUILDINGS,  continued ' :  Section. 

Unsafe  buildings 76 

Vats  or  pans  for  molten  metals  to  be  protected 46 

Walls  of  business  and  residence  buildings 17 

Walls  not  to  project  bevond  building  line 37 

Walls  to  be  braced ." 62 

Wholesale  store  or  warehouse,  what  constitutes 64 

Wooden  buildings  forbidden  within  certain  limits 2 

Wooden  fences  not  to  exceed  eighteen  feet  in  height 55 

Wooden  flag  poles  on 60 

Woodwork  of  boiler  houses,  how  protected 51 

Woodwork  to  be  protected  from  furnace  and  flues 49 

BUTCHERS  (See  Markets). 

BUTTERINE: 

Inspectorto  beappointed 3 

Penalty  for  selling  "  substitutes  "  for  butter 4 

Sale  of  as  butter  prohibited 1 

Substitutes  for  butter  to  be  marked . , 2 


c. 

CABMEN  (See  Coaches,  Cabs  and  Carts). 
CABOOSE  (See  Railroads). 

CALABOOSE : 

Calaboose  established 1  96 

Building  designed  as 3  9fr 

May  be  designated  by  the  board 4  96 

Sergeant  of  police  keeper  of. 2  96 

CAMPHENE  (See  explosives). 

CANNON  (See  Fire  Works;  also  Fire  Arms). 

CAPITAL  STOCK  : 

Municipalities  not  to  subscribe  to 4  5 

CARS  (See  Railroads;  also  Horse  Railways). 
CARTS  AND  CARTMEN  (See  Coaches,  Cabs  and  Carts). 
CATTLE  (See  Pounds). 
CHIMNEYS  (See  Buildings). 

CHIPS  AND  SHAVINGS  : 

Not  to  be  scattered  in  streets 7         182 

CHURCHES  (See  Buildings). 
CIRCUS  (See  Amusements). 
CISTERNS  (See  Buildings). 
CLERK  (See  Town  Clerk). 
CLERKS  OF  ELECTION  (See  Elections). 

COACHES,  CABS  AND  CARTS: 

Accidents  from   contact  with  carts 37  172 

Baggage  allowed,  fees  on 17  168- 

Bond  required  to  obtain  license 4  165 

Carts  not  to  drive  on  or  obstruct  sidewalks 38  172 

Carts  to  have  name  and  number  painted  on 42  173 

Carts,  trucks  or  drays  to  be  licensed  and  deemed  public 29  170 

Carts,  when  licenses  have  been  revoked  not  to  be  used 39  173 

Clerk  shall  keep  list  of  licenses,  expiration  of. 5  165- 

Disputes  as  to  prices  to  be  settled  by  captain  of  police 19  169 

Drivers  may  retain  articles  to  pay  cartage — disputes 41  173 

Drivers  of  carts  not  to  refuse  to  carry  articles 47  174 

Drivers  of  carts  to  give  name  and  number., , 36  172 


INDEX. 


279 


COACHES,  CABS  AND  CARTS,  continued:                                             Section.  Page. 

Drivers  of,  to  have  license 9  166 

Drivers  to  give 'number  and  names 28  170 

Drivers  to  remain  with  venicles 54  176 

Drivers  to  wear  badges 12  167 

Drivers  transferred  only  on  permit 10  166 

Excessive  charges  forbidden 21  169 

False  representations  by  hackmen 52  17") 

Fare  may  be  demanded  on  entering 22  169 

Fees  for  licensing  dravs,  etc 31  171 

Fees  for  licenses ." (1,2)  15  167 

Hackmen  not  to  act  as  runners 53  175 

Hackmen  not  to  race,  to  keep  to  right 53  175 

Licenses  expire,  when 32  171 

Licenses  for  dravs,  how  obtained 30  170 

Licenses  may  be  transferred 3  165 

License  required  for  keeping  for  hire 1  165 

Name  on  carts  to  be  effaced  on  expiration  of  license 43  174 

Name  to  be  painted  on , 6  165 

Not  to  convey  to  houses  of  ill-fame,  or  deceive 49  175 

Omnibuses  to  have  light  with  number 8  166 

Other  carts  not  to  be  used 45  174 

Owners  and  drivers  liable  for  violation  of  ordinance 11  166 

Owners  responsible  for  losses — age  of  drivers 33  171 

Owner  to  report  sale,  and  license  to  be  transferred 13  167 

Packages  left  in 18  168 

Penalty  for  refusing  to  convey  passengers -24  169 

Penalty  for  refusing  to  obey  police 26  170 

Penalty  for  violating  ordinance 55  176 

Police  may  order  carts  from  streets 35  172 

Police  to  see  coach  ordinance  enforced 25  169 

Rates  of  fare  to  be  charged (1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8  and  9)  16  168 

Rates  to  be  charged  by  carts  or  drays (1,  2  and  3)  40  173 

Refusal  to  give  number  or  imposing  on  passengers 50  175 

Regulations  in  regard  to  transporting  long  timbers 46  174 

Residence  of  owner  to  be  reported  to  clerk 44  174 

Shall  not  mislead  passengers 51  175 

Sleighs  may  be  used,  subject  to  same  rules 27  170 

Stands  for  drays  and  carts 34  171 

Supervisor  to  designate  stands  of 23  169 

Time,  how  computed,  charge  for  detention 20  169 

To  have  lights,  with  number,  and  inside  handles  to  doors 7  166 

To  stand  in  place  designated 48  174 

Who  may  obtain  licenses 2  165 

COAL: 

•    Dealers  to  furnish  certificate  of  weight •> 2  176 

How  weighed , '. 1  176 

Light  weight  or  fraud  prohibited 3  177 

•COLLECTOR  : 

Bond  approved 6  8 

Compensation  of 6  9 

Execute  bond 6  8 

File  annual  statement 4  86 

Fine  for  not  collecting 38  26 

May  be  sued  in  name  of  town 6  9 

Pay  over  monevs  each  month 2  85 

Report  delinquent  taxes  to  county  treasurer 5  86 

Shall  collect  special  assessments 1  85 

Shall  keep  books  of  account 3  85 

To  collect  special  assessment 3b  26 


28O  INDEX. 

« 

COMBUSTIBLES  (See  Gunpowder  and  Explosives). 

COMMISSIONER    OF  BUILDINGS 

(See  Superintendent  of  Public  Works;  also  Buildings). 

COMMISSIONER  OF  HEALTH  (See  Supervisor;  also  Health). 

COMMISSIONER  OF  PUBLIC  WORKS 

(See  Supervisor;  also  Buildings). 

COMPENSATION  (See  Fees  and  Salaries). 

CONCEALED  WEAPONS  :                                                                        Section.  Page.. 

Carrying  of  prohibited 1  177 

Expiration  of  license 9  178 

Fee  for  license  to  carry 8  178 

Licenses  for  carrying 7  178 

Penalty  for  carrying 5  178 

Police  and  others  excepted 6  178 

Police  to  arrest  for  carrying 3  177 

Shall  be  confiscated 2  177 

Warrants  and  proceedings  leading  to  conviction  for 4  178 

CONCERTS  (See  Amusements). 

CONDEMNATION  PROCEEDINGS  (See  Special  Assessments). 

CONTAGIOUS  DISEASES: 

Articles  from  infected  houses  not  to  be  brought  into  town 119  214 

Board  may  adopt  measures  to  prevent  spread  of. 127  216 

Children  in  schools  to  be  vaccinated 123  215 

Children  not  to  be  exposed  to : 122  215 

Evidence  of  vaccination 124  215 

Exposure  of  persons  to 120  214 

Hotel  and  boarding  house  keepers  to  report  death  from 112  213 

Managers  of  public  and  private  institutions  to  make  report  of  113  213 

Notice  of — not  to  be  removed — penalty  for 117  214 

Parents  to  vaccinate  children 121  215 

Persons  sick  of,  not  to  be  removed 120  214 

Persons  sick  of,  to  be  reported 114  213 

Physicians  to  report  death  of  persons  dying  from Ill  213 

School  teachers  violating  chapter — penalty 126  215 

Sea-faring  men  sick  of,  to  be  reported 115  213 

CONTESTED  ELECTIONS  (See  Elections). 
CONTRACTORS  (See  Buildings;  also  Health). 

CONTRACTS  : 

Equal  bids,  board  to  re-advertise  or  determine 4and       5        240* 

Printing,  advertising  and  stationery 1  to     12  239-41 

CORPORATE  INDEBTEDNESS  (See  also  Municipal  Bonds) : 

Bonds  may  be  issued  to  pay  prior  indebtedness 12  5> 

Not  to  exceed  five  per  centum 12  5 

Private  property  not  to  be  sold  for  corporate  debts 10  4 

Tax  to  be  levied  for  payment 12  5, 

CORPORATION  COUNSEL  (See  Town  Attorney). 
COURTS  (See  Police  Courts). 
CRIME  (See  Misdemeanors). 

CRIMINAL  CODE: 

Duty  of  officers 2          43. 

CROSSINGS  (See  Sidewalks;  also  Streets). 

CURBS  (See  Sidewalks). 

CUSTODIAN  OF  STOLEN  PROPERTY  (See  Police). 


INDEX.  2S  i. 


D. 

DEAD  ANIMALS  (See  Nuisances;  also  Health). 

DEALERS  IN  SECOND  HAND  ARTICLES 

(See  Second  Hand  Dealers  and  Keepers,  of  Junk  Shops). 

DEBT  (See  Indebtedness). 

DEPARTMENT  OF  HEALTH  (See  Health). 

DICK   (See  Gaming). 

DISORDERLY  HOUSES  (See  Saloons). 

DISTILLERS  (See  Health;  also  Nuisances). 

DOCTORS   (See  Physicians). 

DOGS  :  Section.     Page-. 

Barking  and  howling  of,  prohibited 13         181 

Fastened  in  vehicles,  not  to  be  captured 5         179 

Fees  for  impounding 11         181 

License  required,  fee  for 2        179 

Not  apply  todogs  passing  through  town  with  owners 8        180 

Penalty  for  hindering  capture  of 9        180 

Penalty  for  violating  chapter 12        181 

Running  at  large  of  unmuzzled,  prohibited 1         179 

Running  at  large,  to  be  captured 6         180 

Supervisor  to  enforce  ordinance 7         180 

Tags  to  be  furnished 2  and       3         179 

To  be  impounded 10         180 

To  wear  collar  and  be  muzzled 4         179 

DOORS   (See  Buildings). 
DRAINS   (See  Sewers  and  Drains). 
DRAYS   (See  Coaches,  Cabs  and  Carts). 
DRIVERS   (See  Coaches,  Cabs  and  Carts). 
DRIVING  (See  Horses). 

DRUGGIST: 

Not  sell  fraudulent  decoction 24        230 

DRUNKENNESS: 

Not  allowed  in  public  streets 42        233: 

DWELLING  HOUSES   (See  Buildings). 
DYNAMITE   (See  Explosives). 

E. 

ELECTIONS: 

Contested 3  7 

Of  president  of  board 4  8 

Place  of  holding 3  7 

Time  and  place  of. ,. 87  15 

Time  of  opening  and  closing  polls 1  48 

TO-VH   .!//•<•/  in  ITS: 

Additional  polling  places  may  be  provided,  when 7  45 

Assistant  moderator  and  clerk  may  be  chosen 7  45 

Ballot  boxes 7  45 

Canvass  of 7  45 

Clerk  of — minutes 5  44 

Clerk  pro  teni 6  44 

Election  of  town  officers 1  44 

Eligibility  to  office 1  46 

General  election  laws  to  apply 8  45 

In  large  towns,  general  meeting  to  be  held,  where 7  45 

List  of  town  officers  to  be  filed  with  county  clerk 13  46 

Neglect  of  officer  to  qualify 3  46 


282  INDEX. 

ELECTION'S,  continued:                                                                                         Section.  Page. 

Notice  of. 2  43 

Notice  of  election  to  be  sent 12  46 

Oath  of  moderator 4  44 

Organization  of — moderator 2  44 

Polling  places 7  45 

Power  of  moderator 3  44 

Result  read  by  clerk 10  45 

Tie  vote,  how  decided 11  46 

Time  of  holding  meeting 1  43 

Qualification  of  officers 2  46 

ENGINEER  AND  SURVEYOR: 

Duties  of. 1          88 

ENGINE  HOUSES  (See  Fire  Department). 
ENGINES  (See  Railroads). 
ENTERTAINMENTS  (See  Amusements). 
ESTIMATES  (See  Appropriations). 

EVIDENCE  : 

False  certificate  of,  penalty  for 19  48 

Form  of  certificate  16  48 

Records  of  municipal  corporations,  how  certified 14  48 

Sworn  copies  of. 18  48 

EXCAVATIONS  (See  Streets). 

EXECUTIONS  (See  also  Judgments) : 

May  issue  against  property  of  sureties 14          42 

EXHIBITIONS  (See  Amusements). 

EXPLOSIVES  (See  also  Gunpowder ;  also  Fire) : 

Combustible  material,  board  shall  regulate 35          15 

Gunpowder,  dynamite  or   nitro-glycerine,   not  to  be    stored 

without  permit 15         189 

Manufacture  of  explosive  material  prohibited 14        189 

EXPRESSMEN  (See  Coaches,  Cabs  and  Carts). 


F. 


FACTORIES  (See  Health;  also  Nuisances). 
FARES  (See  Coaches,  Cabs  and  Carts). 

FEES  (See  also  Salaries): 

For  endorsing  bonds  2         162 

Sealer  of  weights  and  measures (1,  2,  3,  4,  5  and  6)      7        271 

FENCES  : 

Defacing  fences,  awnings,  etc 3        227 

FERTILIZERS  (See  Health). 
FINANCES  (See  Revenue). 

FIRE  ARMS: 

Cannon  not  to  be  discharged  without  permit  5  183 

Discharging  guns  or  pistok  prohibited 1  183 

Firing  of  fire-crackers,  etc.,  prohibited 3  183 

Loaning  guns  or  pistols  to  minors  prohibited 2  183 

Police  to  enforce  ordinance 7  184 

Powder  and  combustibles  to  be  stored  in  fire-proof  vaults 4  183 

Sale  of  fireworks  regulated 6  184 

Supervisor  may  allow  firing 3  183 


INDEX.  283 

FIRE  DEPARTMENT  AND  FIREMEN:                                                  Section.  Page. 

Absence  cause  for  removal 7  97 

Assembling  in  engine  houses 9  97 

Disabled  members  to  receive  pay 3  97 

Defacing  fire  alarm  telegraph  poles 19  99 

Draymen  refusing  to  draw  engine 12  98 

Driving  over  hose 15  99 

Firemen  may  arrest 11  98 

Having  in  possession  keys,  etc.,  of. 17  99 

Hindering  firemen 13  98 

Hose  protectors  to  be  laid  down 16  99 

May  receive  reward 6  97 

Members  shall  betemperate 1  96 

Members  shall  not  resign  without  permission 7  97 

Members  to  be  furnished  with  rules 4  97 

Members  to  wear  badge 5  97 

Not  obeying  orders  of  fireman 11  98 

Obstructing  fire  hydrants 8  97 

Opening  signal  boxes 20  99 

Personating  firemen 10  98 

Persons  not  members  not  allowed  in  engine  houses 2  97 

Property  saved  from  fire  not  to  be  removed 18  99 

Regulating  speed  of  engine 14  98 

FIRE  MARSHAL  (See  Fire  Department). 
FIREMEN  (See  Fire  Department). 

FIRES  (See  also  Fire  Department): 

Ashes  not  to  be  kept  in  wooden  boxes 9  183 

Candles  to  be  in  candlesticks.. 5  182 

Carrying  fire  in  streets 6  182 

Combustible  materials  not  to  accumulate  4  182 

False  outcry  of  prohibited : 1  181 

Oiled  or  varnished  rags  to  be  burned  4  182 

Stoves  to  be  placed  in  fire-proof  box 5  182 

Unprotected  lights  in  barns  or  stables 3  182 

FIREWORKS: 

Police  to  enforce  ordinance 7  184 

FINES  (See  also  Penalties): 

Not  to  exceed  $100 (25)  11  13 

Paid  to  treasurer  of  town , 12  13 

Prosecution  no  defense  to 1  31 

Suits  to  recover,  how  brought 1  31 

Working  out 14  14 

FLAGMEN  (See  Railroads). 
FLAGS  (See  Streets). 

FLYING  KITES: 

Flying  kites  on  streets , 7  227 

FOOD  (See  Health). 
FRUIT  (See  Health;  also  Pedlars). 
FRUIT  ST.\NDS  (See  Pedlars). 
FURNACES' (See  Buildings). 

G. 

GAMBLERS  (See  Gaming). 

GAMBLING  (See  Gaming). 

OAMING: 

Dealing  in  faro,  roulette,  etc.,  prohibited 2  184 

Devices  for  not  allowed  in  streets...                              5  185 


284  INDEX. 

GAMING,  continued:                                                                                  Section.  Page. 

Gaming  tables  or  devices  not  to  be  brought  into  town 4  185 

Keeping  devices  for  prohibited 1  184 

Penalty  for  frequenting  gaming  houses 6  185 

Police  to  give  information  to  supervisor 3  184 

Police  to  seize  devices  for 7  185 

Police  to  take  out  warrants  to  enter  gaming  houses 3  184 

GARBAGE  (See  Health). 

GAS  COMPANIES: 

Excavations  for  laying  pipes 3  186 

Manner  of  laving  pipes 1  186 

Shall  conform  to  ordinances 4  186 

Shall  keep  map  of  pipes 2  186 

GASOLINE  (See  Explosives). 

GLASS  (See  Streets). 

GLUE  MAKING  (See  Nuisances). 

GRADES: 

Base  or  datum  of 1  115 

Grades  between  points  to  be  straight  lines 3  120 

Sidewalks  to  incline  upward 4  120 

Streets  not  to  be  graded  until  ordered 5  120 

Tables  explained 2  115 

Tables  of. 2  116-9 

GREASE  (See  Health  and  Nuisances). 

GUNPOWDER: 

Buildings  where  stored  shall  have  sign 16  189 

Dealers  to  keep  sign 4  187 

Fees  for  permits  lor  sale  of 12  189 

Illegally  stored  to  be  seized 18  189 

Liquor  dealers  not  to  have  permit  to  sell 12  189 

Magazines  for  storing 6  187 

May  keep  one  pound  for  own  use 1  186 

Not  to  be  sold  without  permit 1  186 

Not  to  be,  stored  to  exceed  twenty-four  hours — exceptions 8  188 

Not  to  be  weighed  after  night,  except  in  sealed  packages 3  187 

Not  to  remain  in  streets 9  188 

Penalty  for  violating  chapter  on 11  188 

Regulations  for  transporting 7  187 

Regulations  in  regard  to  keeping 5  187 

Town  clerk  to  keep  register  of  permits 2  187 

Wagons  conveying  to  be  marked 10  188 

GUT  FAT  (See  Markets). 

GUTTERS  (See  Streets;  also  Sewers  and  Drains). 

H. 

HACKMEN  ( See  Coaches,  Cabs  and  Carts). 
HACKS  (See  Coaches,  Cabs  aad  Carts). 
HALLS  (See  Buildings). 

HANDBILLS: 

Posting  prohibited 9        227 

HATCHWAYS  (See  Buildings).' 
HAY: 

Bales  to  be  marked  with  weight 

Certificate  of  weight  to  be  procured 

Dutv  and  fees  of  weighers....  


INDEX.  285 

HAY,  con  fin  H  i'ii  :  Section.  Page. 

Hay  or  straw  not  to  be  piled  near  buildings 8  182 

Must  be  weighed  before  sale 4  190 

Penalty  for  violating  chapter  on 7  191 

Re-weighing  of. y.       6  190- 

Seller  of  to  exhibit  and  deliver  certificate 5  190 

Unweighed  not  to  be  sold 3  190 

Who  may  have  hay  scales 1  190 

HEALTH  : 

Adulterated,  skimmed  or  swill  milk,  sale  of. 64  204 

Agents  to  give  name  of  owner  to  commissioner  of  health 81  198 

Animals  diseased  or  exposed  to  contagious  diseases  not  to  be 

brought  into  town 101  211 

Animals  sick  with  contagious  disease  to  be  removed 10T  112 

Animals  not  to  be  kept  in  lodging  houses 19  195 

Animals  not  to  be  slaughtered  in  streets 74  206 

Animals  not  to  be  yarded  without  permit 70  205 

Annual  report  of  commissioner,  to  be  printed... (1,  2,  3  and  4)       6  192 

Blacksmith's  cinders,  etc.,  to  be  removed 99  211 

Boarding  houses,  etc.,  to  be  kept  clean  and  wholesome 9  193' 

Bringing  unwholesome  meat,  etc.,  into  town 51  202 

Building  vaults,  privies,  etc 100  211 

Butcher's  offal  not  to  be  run  into  sewers 86  199 

Butcher's  offal,  removal  of. 79  207 

Calves,  pigs  and  lambs,  age  of. 52  202 

Cased  or  blown  meat 57  203 

Cattle  to  be  kept  in  clean  place 68  205 

Cellar  defined 29  197 

Children  not  to  be  employed  at  night,  nor  more  than  eight 

hours  per  day 11  193 

Cisterns,  vaults,  etc.,  not   to  become  nuisances 39  199 

Commissioner  may  disinfect  houses '. 118  214 

Commissioner  of,  shall  visit  factories,  etc 5  192 

Commissioner  to  cause  notice  of  contagious  diseases  to  be 

posted 117  214 

Commissioner  to  have  access  to  markets,  etc 78  206 

Commissionner  to  visit  persons  reported  to  have  contagious 

diseases 116  213 

Commissioer  to    visit  schools,  and  make  examination  as  to 

vaccination 125  215 

Condemned  buildings  to  be  vacated  22  196 

Construction  of  defective  buildings  prohibited 1  191 

Construction  of  sewers  45  200 

Contents  of  privies,  etc.,  to  be  transported  in  air-tight  boxes...     42  200 

Contents  of  vaults,  garbage,  etc.,  disposition  of 48  201 

Dangerous  or  boisterous  resorts  or  business  not  allowed 137  217 

Dangerous  or  unhealthy  buildings,  etc.,  not  allowed 139  217 

Dead  animals,  disposition  of 103  211 

Dead  animals  or  other  nuisances   not  to  be  brought  into  town  138  217 

Dead  animals  to  be  removed 106  212 

Dead  bodies  not  to  be  exposed 128  216 

Dead  bodies  not  to  be  removed  without  permit 131  216 

Decayed  vegetables  not  to  be  sold 55  203 

Depositing  offal  on  parks  and  street  prohibited 33  198 

Deposit  of  manure,  etc  94  210 

Distilleries,  varnish  factories,  etc 84  207 

Drains  and  soil  pipes  to  be  kept  clean 43  200 

Drains  to  be  flushed 44  200 

Drinking  hvdrants,  corruption  of  prohibited 67 

Drivers  of  garbage  carts 90  209 

Dumping  manure  from  carts — to  be  removed  from  stable 95  210* 


286  INDEX. 

HEALTH,  continued:                                                                                               Section.  Page. 

Exposure  of  dead  animals 134  217 

Factories  not  to  be  overcrowded — ventilation — cleanliness...  3  191 

Factories  to  be  lighted  and  warmed  and  safeguards  provided..  9  193 

Fat  for  rendering  not  to  be  brought  into  town 86  208 

Fevered  or  diseased  animals  not  to  be  killed  for  food 53  202 

Finding  of  dead  bodies  to  be  reported 129  216 

Garbage  carts,  rules  in  relation  to 88  and  89  208-9 

Garbage  not  to  be  allowed  to  fall  upon  street 91  209 

Garbage  of  lodging  houses 19  195 

Gas,  manufacturing  of — gas  tar 46  201 

Glanders 102  211 

Glue  making  and  bone  boiling 81  207 

Gutters  not  to  be  obstructed  by  rubbish 40  199 

Keepers  of  prisons  to  have  regard  to  health  of  prisoners 32  198 

Landlords  not  to  rent  defective  buildings 2  191 

Liquid  manure  to  be  removed  in  tight  carts 98  210 

Lodging  houses  having  contagious  diseases  to  be   disinfected  21  195 

Lodging  houses  on  rear  of  lots 24  196 

Lodging  houses  to  be  cleaned 20  195 

Lodging  houses  to  conform  to  provisions  of  ordinance 23  196 

Lodging  house,  what  constitutes 28  197 

Lodging  or  tenant  houses — regulations  in  regard  to  construc- 
tion  of. 25  196 

Lots  to  be  graded  in  unsewered  streets 18  195 

Manure  carts,  construction  of 87  208 

Meat  not  to  be  offered  for  sale  until  cooled 54  203 

Meat  stalls,  cleanliness  in 59  203 

New  slaughtering  houses 76  206 

No  person  but  officer  to  remove  dead  animal 107  212 

Nothing  dangerous  to  health  to  be  used  in  business 140  218 

•Offensive  accumulations  of  water  prohibited 34  198 

Offensive  matter  not  to  be  disturbed  in  summer i 85  208 

Offensive  matter  to  be  disinfected 92  209 

Officers  may  kill  injured  animals 104  211 

Overcrowding  of  tenant,  lodging,  boarding  houses  or  factories  - 

prohibited 7  192 

Oyster  shells,  removal  of 97  >  210 

Penalty  for  violating  chapter  on  health 141  *  218 

Permit  for  removing  contents  of  privy  vaults 93  209 

Persons  assisting  at  burial  without  permit 132  216 

Physicians  to  report  contagious  diseases 110  212 

Physicians  to  reportdeaths 130  216 

Poisonous  liquids 62  204 

Pound  to  be  kept  in  wholesome  condition 80  207 

Privy  vaults,  etc.,  to  be  water  tight 135  217 

Privy  vaults  not  receptacles  for  ashes,  offal,  etc 38  199 

Privy  vaults,  regulations  concerning 37  199 

Privies  without  proper  vaults,  penalty  for  keeping 136  217 

Refrigerators  to  be  lined 60  203 

Rendering,  permit  for 82  207 

Rendering,  scraps  to  be  dried 83  207 

Roofs  to  be  kept  in  good  repair 13  194 

Rooms  in  lodging  houses  to  be  ventilated 12  193 

Rules  for  rendering  fat,  etc 86  208 

Sale  of  tainted  meat,  penalty  for 63  204 

Scattering  feather*,  allies,  etc.,  in   street* 41  199 

Scavenger  to  do  work  quickly 108  212 

Separate  urinals  for  male  and  female 4 

Sewerage,  etc.,  of  boarding  or  lodging  houses  or  factories 8  193 

Slaughter  house  not  to  be  occupied  as  dwelling 75  206 

.Slaughter  houses  to  be  kept  clean 73  205 


INDEX.  287 

HEALTH,  con  finned:                                                                                               Section.  Page. 

Slaughtering  not  allowed  in  market •  77  20C 

Slaughtering,  permit  for 72  205 

Sleeping  in  cellars  or  illy  ventilated  rooms  prohibited 10  193 

Stables  to  be  kept  clean — infected  animals  not  allowed  in 69  205 

Stirring  manure 96  210 

Street  sweepings  to  be  removed 109  212 

Swill,  brine  or  offensive  liquids  not  allowed  to  run 35  198 

Tanneries,  etc.,  to  have  permit 34  198 

Temperature,  ventilation,  etc.,  of  churches  and  schools 30  198 

Tenement  house,  regulations  concerning 26  197 

Throwing  offal  intoriver 50  202 

Traps  for  water  closets ' 17  '    194 

Tubs  in  privies,  etc 49  202 

Unwholesome  food  or  drinks  prohibited 56  203 

Unwholesome  food  to  be  reported -61  204 

Unwholesome  food  under  false  name 58  203 

Ventilation  of  schools 30  197 

Ventilation,  sewerage,  of  factories 4  192 

Water  closets  and  privies  to  be  in  good  order 14  194 

Water  closets,  etc.,  construction  of 47  201 

Water  closets  for  every  twenty  persons 15  194 

Water  closets  to  be  connected  with  sewer 16  194 

Water,  purity  of  to  be  preserved 65  and  66  204 

What  constitutes  a  tenement  house , 27  197 

HIDES  (See  Markets). 
HOGS  (See  Pounds). 

HORSES: 

Leaving  and  entering  alleys 3  218 

Not  allowed  on  sidewalk 5  219 

Not  permitted  to  run  loose 4  218 

Races  defined 7  219 

Racingof,  prohibited 6  219 

Selling  at  auction  in  streets  forbidden 8  219 

Speed  of,  regulated 1  218 

To  be  fastened  when  in  streets .'...  9  219 

Turning  corners  of  streets  with 2  218 

HORSE  RACING  (See  Horses). 

HORSE  RAILWAYS: 

Fine  for  not  keeping  track  in  repair 4  2201 

Gauge  of. 1  219 

General  assembly  to  pass  no  law  for  construction  of 4  5 

Keep  streets  in  repair 3  220 

Kind  and  size  of  rail 2  219 

Penalties 7  221 

Rightof  track 5  220 

Stopping  at  street  crossings — bells 6  220 

Tracks  to  be  level  with  street  and  kept  in  good  condition 3  220 

HOUSE  MOVER  (See  Buildings). 

HOUSE  NUMBERS  (See  Numbering  Houses). 

HOUSES  OF  ILL  FAME: 

Emergency  clause 2  49 

Inmates  of 21  230 

Licensing  and  medical  inspection  forbidden 1  49 

Keeping  of 18  229 

HOTELS  (See  Buildings). 

HYDRANTS  (See  aho  Water). 

Obstruction  of,  forbidden 8  97 


288  INDEX. 


I. 

ICE :                                                                                                                                          Section.  Page. 

Penalty 4  221 

Sale  of  impure  prohibited — weight  of. 1  221 

To  be  weighed,  if  required 2  221 

Tools  not  to  project  beyond  end  of  wagon 3  221 

IMPRISONMENT  (See  also  Penalty) : 

Not  to  exceed  thirty  days (25)     11  13 

IMPROVEMENTS 

(See  also  Special  Assessments;  also  Local  Improvements): 
Paid  for  by  special  assessment 16  15 

INDEBTEDNESS: 

General  assembly  shall  not  release 23  3 

INDECENCY : 

Indecent  exposure  of  animals 15         228 

INHUMANITY  : 

Inhumanly  treating  animals 23         230 

INSURANCE  COMPANIES: 

Tax  on  receipts 30          49 

INTELLIGENCE  OFFICES: 

Fee  and  bond  for  license 4  222 

License  for 2  222 

Location  and  expiration  of  license 3  222 

Keeper  of,  defined 1  222 

Keeping  unlicensed,  prohibited 5  222 

Penalty  for  making  false  representations 6  222 

INTOXICATION: 

Not  allowed  in  public  streets 42        233 

J. 

JAIL  (See  Calaboose). 

JEWELRY  (See  Auctions  and  Auctioneers). 
JUDGES  OF  ELECTION  (See  Elections). 
JUDGMENTS  (See  Taxes;  also  Imprisonment). 

JUNK  DEALERS  (See  also  Second-hand  Dealers): 

Bond  of  junkdealers 13  266 

Carts,  name  painted  on 19  267 

Fees  for  license 12  266 

License  for  carts 21  267 

License  to 11  265 

Must  have  license 18  266 

Not  to  be  second-hand  dealer  or  pawnbroker 8  265 

Not  to  sell  or  pawn,  nor  loan  on  security 14  266 

Separate  license  for  each  vehicle — badges 20  267 

To  have  license  and  one  place  oi  business 10  265 

To  keep  book — open  to  inspection 15,  16  and  17  266 

JURISDICTION  (See  Justices  of  the  Peace). 

JUSTICES  OF  THE  PEACE  (See  also  Police  Court): 

Jurisdiction  of 14  50 

Jurisdiction  of  offenses  under  town  ordinances 12  13 

Shall  issue  warrants  for  violation  of  ordinances 13  13 

Venue  may  be  changed.. 12  13 


INDEX.  289 


L. 

LAMPS:  Section.     Page. 

Board  to  have  charge  of. 1  120 

Breaking  of,  penalty  for 4  120 

Letter  boxes  may  be  attached 2  120 

Penalty  for  breaking 8  121 

Penalty  for  removing 6  121 

Penalty  for  unauthorized  lighting 3  120 

Posts  not  to  be  removed,  penalty  for 7  121 

Street  signs,  penalty  for  removing 5  121 

LAKE  (See  The  Town  of  Lake). 
LARD  (See  Markets). 

LICENSES  (See  also  Permits): 

Amusements,  not  to  allow  gaming 7  157 

Amusements,  subject  to  ordinances 6  157 

Amusements,  town  clerk  to  issue 3  156 

Applications  for  saloon  licenses,  necessary  steps  to  take 14  261 

Auctioneers  to  obtain — how  obtained — when  expire 5  159 

Bond  for  new  license 9  224 

By  whom  granted 1  223 

Drivers  of  coaches,  etc.,  to  be  licensed 9,  10,  11  and  12  166 

Fees  for  coach  or  omnibus (1  and  2)  1C  167 

Fees  for  keeping  public  carts (1,2,  3  and  4)  31  171 

Fee  for  places  of  amusement 2  156 

For  keeping  clogs 2  179 

House-mover  to  have 74  113 

Junk   Shop 11,  12,  18,  19  and  20  265-7 

May  be  issued  for  less  than  one  year,  when 10  224 

May  be  revoked  for  violation  of  State  law 5  235 

May  be  transferred  or  surrendered  by  consent  of  president....  9  224 

Not  transferable  without  permit 4  223 

Owners  or  lessees  of  halls  may  obtain  general 4  157 

Packing  houses  and  fertilizer  manufactories 4  and  5  234—5 

Pawnbrokers 1  and  2  243 

Pawnbrokers,  revoked 18  245 

Pedlars 1,  2,  3  and  4  246 

Places  of  amusement  to  have 1  156 

Plumbers 1  124 

Porters  and  runners 1,  2,  3  and  4  248-9 

President  of  board  to  grant,  when 6  223 

Proprietors  of  halls,  etc.,  to  obtain 9  157 

Revoked  for  non-payment  of  fee 8  224 

Saloon 1,  2  and  3  258-9 

Saloon  license  not  to  be  granted  within  certain  limits 13  261 

Scavengers 1,  2  and  3  261-2 

Second-hand  dealers 1,  2,  3  and  4  264-5 

Slaughtering  animals 4-5  234-5 

Subject  to  ordinances,  and  to  be  revoked 3  223 

To  carry  concealed  weapons 7,  8  and  9  178 

To  keep  carts,  when  expire 32  171 

To  keep  coach,  etc.,  for  hire 1,  2,  3,  4,  5  and  6  165 

To  keep  explosives,  other  than  gunpowder 15  189 

To  keep  intelligence  offices 2,  3,  4  and  5  222 

To  keep  market 1,  4  and  5  'J-,'."i 

To  keep  public  carts 30  170 

To  traffic  in  streets 1  159 

Town  clerk  to  issue 2  223 

Treasurer  to  receipt  for  money 7  224 

When  expire 5  223 


INDEX. 

LIQUORS  (See  Saloons). 

LIVERY  STABLES  ^See  Coaches,  Cabs  and  Carts). 

LOCAL  IMPROVEMENTS  (See  also  Special  Assessments) :  Section.  Page. 

Appeal  shall  not  delay  proceedings 14  201 

Bv  special  taxation  collected  as  special  assessment 17  21 

Contest  in  regard  to  title  shall  not  delay  proceedings 12  19 

Corporate  authorities  may  levy  special  tax 1  17 

Court  may  appoint  guardian  for  infant  or  insane  owners 13  20 

Court  may  have  jury  view  the  premises , 9  19 

Court  to  order  possession 15  20 

Final  judgment  sufficient  condemnation 14  20 

Judgment  entered  on  verdict 10  19 

Jury  shall  be  impaneled 7  18 

Jury  to  ascertain  compensation 8  18 

Made  by  general  taxation,  to  be  added  to  appropriation  bill....  16  20 

New  parties,  further  proceedings 10  19 

On  change  of  title  court  may  proceed 11  19 

Ordinance  shall  prescribe  manner 2  17 

Owners  to  be  notified 6  18 

Petition  shall  be  filed 4  17 

Petition  shall  contain  copy  of  ordinance 5  18- 

Town  shall  deposit  damages  and  appeal  bond 14  20 

LOCOMOTIVES  (See  Railroads). 

LODGING  HOUSES  (See  Buildings). 

M. 

MANUFACTORIES  (See  Nuisances). 
MANURE  (See  Health;  also  Streets). 

MAPS  AND  PLATS  : 

To  be  certified  to  and  acknowledged  before  approval 1  123- 

To  be  filed,  approved,  and  recorded 2  124 

MARKETS  (See  also  Health): 

Butcher  defined 9  226 

Butchering  not  to  be  done  in  or  near 8  226 

Butchers'  cellars  to  be  kept  clean — officers  to  have  access  to...  6  225 

Butchers'  license 4  225 

Farmer  may  sell  produce  without  license 1  50 

Fee  for 5  225 

Filth  not  to  be  deposited  in  passage  or  street 7  226 

Meats  to  be  weighed  by  beam  scale — fraud  in 3  225 

License  required — exception 1  225 

Sale  of  gut  fat,  scraps,  hides,  etc.,  regulated ' 2  225 

MEAT  (See  Markets;  also  Health). 

MIDWIFE  (See  Health). 

MINSTRELS  (See  Amusements). 

MINORS  (See  Pawnbrokers;  also  Junk  and  Second-Hand  Dealers). 

MISDEMEANORS  (See  also  Nuisances): 

Booths  on  streets 39  233 

Beating  drums  or  blowing  horns  in  streets 38  233 

Defacing  public  buildings,  trees,  etc 6  227 

Dyeing  cloth  in  streets 37  232 

Female  diseases — advertising  cures  for 17  229 

Filthy  or  lewd  acls  or  words  in  streets 29  231 

Houses  of  ill  fame  declared  a  nuisance 20  230 

Indecent  books  and  pictures 22  230 

Indecent  exposure  of  person 19  229 

Inhumanity  to  animals 24  230 

Intoxicated  persons  in  public  streets 42  233 


INDEX. 


291 


MISDEMEANORS,  continued:                                                                               Section.  Page. 

Jumping  on  cars  while  in  motion  ........................................  32  232 

Killing  or  wounding  birds  ..................................................  31  •_>;!! 

Lounging  on  street  corners  ................................................  12  228 

Maimed  or  diseased  people  not  allowed  on  streets  ..................  28  231 

Obstructing  gutters,  etc  ......................................................  5  227 

Opium  smoking  resorts  ......................................................  30  232 

Poisons,  sale  of.  .................................................................  25  230 

Possession  of  burglars'  nippers,  skeleton  keys,  etc.,  prohibited.  1  220 

Posting  notices  of  skill  in  curing  venereal  diseases  ................  33  232 

Removing  sod  from  streets  or  lots  .......................................  13  228 

Riot  or  disturbance  in  streets  ..............................................  40  233 

Rubbish  not  to  be  thrown  in  streets  .....................................  4  227 

Street  games  or  shows  prohibited  ........................................  2  226 

Throwing  fruit  peelings  on  sidewalks  ...................................  11  228 

Throwing  stones  in  streets  .................................................  4  227 

Throwing  water  or  liquids  in  streets  .....................................  35  232 

Venereal  diseases,  advertising  cures  for  ................................  16  229 

MORTAR    (See  Buildings;  also,  Streets). 


NAMES  OF  STREETS   (See  Streets). 

NAPHTHA  (See  Explosives;  also,  Oil). 

NEWSPAPER   (See  Official  Newspaper). 

NIGHT  SCAVENGERS   (See  Scavengers). 

NITRO  GLYCERINE   (See  Explosives;  also,  Gunpowder). 

NOTICES: 

Collector's  notice  for  special  assessment  ..............................  37  25 

Of  sale  of  animals  at  pound  ....................................  10  and  14  252-3 

Of  special  assessment  ......................................................  27  23 

Of  town  meeting  .............................................................  2  42 

To  abate  nuisance  ............................................................  6  83 

NUISANCES: 

Bone  boiling  declared  to  be  ...............................................  18  238 

Buildings  in  offensive  condition  declared  to  be  .....................  13  237 

Creating  offensive  smells  ...................................................  11  236 

Denned  ..............................  :.....  .....................  (1,  2  and  3)  '8  235 

Expenses  of  removing  to  be  recovered  ...............................  21  238 

Foul  or  nauseous  privv  vaults  ...........................................  15  237 

Health  officer  to  abate"  ......................................................  20  238 

Health  officers  to  examine  apparatus  in  rendering  houses  ......  6  235 

Licenses  revoked  for  violation  of  chapter  ............................  5  235 

Nauseous  factories  declared  to  be  .......................................  12  236 

Nauseous  privv  vaults,  etc  ................................................  16  237 

Packing  meat  and  manufacturing  fertilizers  .........................  4  234 

Penalty  for  violating  chapter  .............................................  7  235 

Permitting  nuisances  to  remain  .........................................  10  236 

Permitting  offal  or  slops  to  be  discharged  into  streets  ...........  9  236 

Police  to  be  detailed  to  abate  .....  .'  .......................................  19  238 

Privies,  regulations  concerning  .........................................  14  237 

Slaughtering  and  rendering  ...............................................  1  234 

To  be  removed  within  twentv-four  hours  ............................  21  238 

When  not  specified,  common  law  shall  govern  .....................  22  239 

Unsound  meat  to  be  removed  ...........................................  2  234 

NUMBERING  llorsi^: 

Decimal  system  adopted  ...................................................  1  121 

Engineer  to  erect  street  signs  .............................................  7  123 

20 


292  INDEX. 

NUMBERING   HOUSES,  continued:  Section.    Page. 

Engineer  to  furnish  numbers  and  prepare  maps 2  122 

Fees  for  certificates 3  122 

Penalty  for  refusing  to  number 5  and  6     122-3 

Size  and  position  of  numbers 4  122 

NUMBERS    (See  Numbering  Houses).  . 

o. 

OATH    (See  Officers). 

OFFAL   (See  Markets;  also,  Health;  also,  Nuisances). 

OFFICERS: 

Accepting  bribe  or  interested  in  contract,  how  punished 4  50 

Aldermen  and  trustees  not  to  accept  office 2  51 

Authorized  to  arrest  for  violation  of  ordinances 13  13 

Bond  of  shall  be  acknowledged,  proved  and  filed 2  89 

Defaulters  not  eligible 11  4 

Demand  in  case  of  vacancy 11  47 

Demand  of  executor  of  deceased 13  47 

Duties  of. 3  7 

-Election  of 3  7 

Election  of  may  be  contested 3  7 

Entering  upon  office  before  taking  oath — penalty 8  47 

Failure  of  collector  to  give  bond 6  47 

Fees  of. 5  90 

Fees  of  not  diminished  or  increased.; 22  3 

Make  report  to  supervisor 6  90 

May  -detain  prisoners  over  night 13  13 

Not  to  act  as  attorney  to  procure  contract 3  61 

Not  to  be  interested  in  contracts 3  5J 

Oath  of  civil 25  3 

Outgoing  to  deliver  over  books,  etc 12  47 

Penalty  for  not  delivering  up  papers. 7  9Q 

Removal  for  violation  of  ordinances 9  90 

Resignation  of  elective 124  57 

Retiring  shall  deliver  up  papers 5  82 

Salaries  of,  determined  by  board 3  QQ 

Salariesof,  paid  monthly 4  90 

Shall  file  bonds '. 1  89 

Shall  not  take  bribe 3  51 

•  Shall  perform  whatever  duties  the  board  may  prescribe 6  82 

Successor  to  demand  books 10  47 

Sureties  of  shall  justify  as  to  property 1  89 

To  continue  in  office : 36  15 

Town  officers  refusing  to  serve 7  47 

When  become  vacant 125  52 

Who  may  determine  when  vacancy  exists 126  52 

Vacancies,  how  filled 3  8 

OFFICES  : 

Shajl  be  kept  open  daily 8  90 

OFFICIAL  BONDS  (See  also  Bonds): 

Acknowledgment  of. 1  41 

Bond  of  collector 5  46 

Collector  of  The  Town  of  Lake 6  8 

Effect  of  new  bond 11  41 

Failure  of  collector  to  give 6  47 

Increase  of  collectors 10  37 

Levy  first  to  be  made  on  principal 14  42 

-Lien  on  sureties 14  42 


INDEX. 


293 


OFFICIAL   r.oxns,  continued:  Section.    Page. 

New  bond,  effect  of. 11        41 

New  bonds  may  be  required 1         49 

Officers *. 1         89 

Oil  inspector — suit  on 2         58 

Release  of  sureties  to 10        41 

Suit  on,  executors,  etc 13        43 

Supervisor,  as  treasurer 5           8 

Term  of  office  of. 9         47 

Town  collector 5        4Q 

Town  weigher 1       269 

When  additional  or  new  bonds  may  be  required 10         41 

When  effects  of  principal  to  be  delivered  to  sureties 12        42 

OFFICIAL  PAPER  : 

Advertisements  in 2       239 

Bond  for  contract  for  printing 12       241 

Bonds  of,  to  be  filed 7       240 

Bids  for,  to  be  opened 3       239 

Bids  for,  to  be  sealed  and  deposited  with  clerk 2       239 

Bids  to  be  reported  to  board  for  approval 6       240 

Clerk  to  advertise  for  proposals — advertising  and  printing  (1,  2)  1       239 

Clerk  to  obtain  forms  for  blanks  for  inspection  of  bidders 10       240 

Copies  to  be  filed 9       240 

Payments  to  be  made  monthlv 8       240 

Supervisor  to  approve  matter  for 8       240 

What  bids  shall   specify 11       241 

OIL  (See  Oils  and  Oil  Inspection). 

OILS  AND  OIL  INSPECTION  (See  also  Explosives): 

Bond  of  inspector 2           53 

Fines,  how  recovered  and  disposed  of. 8           54 

Inspector  may  appoint  deputies 1           52 

Inspector  not  deal  in  oils 4           53 

Inspector  to  hold  office  one  year 2          53 

Inspector  to  keep  record  open  to  examination 5           53 

Inspector  to  mark  casks,  etc 4           53 

Oath  of  inspector 2          58 

Penalty  for  misconduct  in  office 6           53 

Penalty  for  not  reporting  to  inspector 7           54 

Penalty  for  selling  uninspected.... 7           54 

Penalty  for  using  counterfeit  brands 7           54 

Suit  on  bond  of  inspector 2          53 

To  test  by  pyrometer 3           53 

Who  shall  appoint  inspector 1           52 

OLEOMARGARINE  (See  Butterine). 

OMNIBUS  DRIVERS  (See  Coaches,  Cabs  and  Carts). 

OPENING  OF  STREETS  (See  Streets). 

ORDINANCES: 

Acts  in  relation  to  repealed 2           55 

Certified  copy  shall  be  evidence 4            8 

Clerk  to  reciprocate  courtesies 9         242 

Construction  of  plural  and  singular  numbers 5         242 

Court  to  fix  maximum  penalty 3         241 

Emergency  clause 3          55 

Enacting  clause  of  revised  ordinances 81 

Imprisonment  for  violation  of  State  law 7         242 

Imprisonment  not  to  exceed  six  months 1           54 

Ordinance  for  revision  of. vi 

Person  fined  mav  be  committed 1           54 

Printed  copies  of  to  be  deposited 8        242 

Prosecuting  officer  to  elect  where  to  prosecute 2        241 


294  INDEX. 

ORDINANCES,  continued:                                                                         Section.  Page, 

Punishment  for  violation  of — actions  for,  how  commenced....  1  54 

Repeal  of  repealing  ordinance  not  to  revive 4  242 

Revised  ordinance  to  take  effect : 2  271 

To  be  posted,  if  penalty  is  imposed (25)  11  13 

To  be  recorded 1  241 

Warrant  may  issue,  when 1  54 

When  no  fine  is  fixed,  how  assessed 6  242 

Violators  of — working  out 1  54 

OYSTERS  (See  Health). 

P. 

PANORAMAS  (See  Amusements). 
PARTY  WALLS  (See  Buildings). 

PAWNBROKERS  : 

Bond  of. 4  243 

Books  to  be  open  to  inspection 7  244 

Clerks  to  be  over  sixteen  years  old 15  245 

Defined I 2  243 

Fee  forlicense 3  243 

Hours  for  receiving  goods 12  244 

License  may  be  revoked 18  245 

Not  to  carry  on  other  business 14  245 

Not  to  deal  in  second-hand  furniture 8  '244 

Not  to  receive  from  intoxicated  persons  or  thieves 16  245 

Not  to  receive  property  from  minors 13  245 

Penalty  for  refusing  to  comply  with  ordinance 9  244 

Police  to  have  right  to  examine 6  246 

Police  to  report 17  245 

Property  to  remain  twenty-four  hours 11  244 

To  deliver  loan  ticket ' 6  244 

To  deliver  to  captain  of  police  copy  of  book 10  244 

To  keep  record  book 5  243 

PEDLARS: 

Adulterated  milk  defined— sale  of. 8  247 

Application  for  license 2  246 

Farmers  and  children  not  considered  such 10  247 

Fraud  and  cheat  prohibited — fine  for 9  247 

Defined — license  required 1  245 

May  be  fined  and  licenses  revoked 11  247 

Number  of  wagons  may  be  increased 3  246 

Penalty  for  selling  adulterated  articles 7  246 

Police  to  prevent  sale  of  unwholesome  articles 5  246 

Wagons  and  carts  to  be  marked 4  246 

PENALTY : 

Allowing  horses  on  sidewalk 5  219 

Assembling  in  engine  house 9  97 

Auctioneers  allowing  outside  parties  to  sell 12  161 

Auctioneers  not  describing  jewelry 8  160 

Auctioneers  not  receiving  back  goods 9  160 

Auctioneers  without  license 7  160 

Backing  horses  or  vehicles  on  sidewalks 23  140 

Breaking  open  pound 16  254 

Breaking  or  mutilating  street  lamps 4  120 

Breaking  or  obstructing  lamps 8  121 

Beating  drums  or  blowing  horns  in  streets 38  233 

Bone  boiling,  etc 18  238 

Booths  in  streets 39  233 


INDEX.  295 

PENALTY,  confinucJ :                                                                                Section.  Page. 

Building  bonfires 2  181 

Buildings  declared  nuisances  remaining 13  237 

Build  ing  sidewalks  out  of  grade 5  136 

Butchering  in  market 8  226 

Butchers' offal  in  sewer 3  129 

Carrying  concealed  weapons 5  178 

Carrying  fire  in  streets 6  182 

Carrying  on  bakery  without  permit  4  163 

Cartmen  not  fixing  broken  sidewalks 27  141 

Cartmen  refusing  to  convey  articles 47  174 

Cattle  running  at  large 1  251 

Cheating  by  pedlars 9  247 

Coaches  standing  in  unauthorized  place 48  174 

Concerts  in  saloons  without  permit 8  157 

Constructing  unlawful  water  tanks 12  155 

Creating  offensive  smells 11  236 

Defacing  fences,  etc 3  227 

Defacing  fire  alarm  telegraph  poles 19  99 

Defacing  handbills 10  157 

Defacing  letter  boxes  on  lamp  posts 2  120 

Defacing  public  buildings,  trees,  etc 6  227 

Defacing  registration  list 2  60 

Delaying  persons  taking  animals  to  pound 17  254 

Depositing  lumber  or  rubbish  in  street 10  145 

Depositing  market  filth  in  streets 7  226 

Destroying  or  breaking  trees 3  149 

Discharging  offal  or  slops  in  streets 9  236 

Discharging  steam  into  sewer 1  129 

Diseased  or  maimed  people  in  streets 28  231 

Disturbing  religious  assemblies 30  231 

Disturbing  water  pipes 10  154 

Draymen  refusing  to  draw  fire  engine 12  98 

Driver  of  cart  not  giving  number 37  172 

Driving  carts  over  sidewalks 26  141 

Driving  fire  engine  fast  on  return  from  fire 14  98 

Driving  horses  on  sidewalks 2o  140 

Driving  over  hose 15  99 

Drunkenness  in  public  streets 4','  %J:!:5 

Dyeing  cloth  in  streets 37  232 

Empty  railroad  cars  in  streets 10  257 

Entering  alley  with  horses  faster  than  walk 3  218 

Erecting  building  in  street ,  7  145 

Erecting  unlawful  signs  2  142 

Excavate  sewer  without  permit 0  130 

Exposing  gaming  devices  in  streets 5  185 

Failing  to  abate  building  nuisance 84  114 

False  certificate  by  officers 19  48 

False  outcry  of  fire 1  180 

False  representations  bv  hackmen 52  175 

False  representations  to  registration  board 8  62 

Fast  driving 1  218 

Fast  driving  around  corners 2  218 

Fast  running  of  railroad   trains  in  towns 24  57 

Fraud  by  members  of  i  egistration  board 14  63 

Fraud  in  making  or  accepting  appointment  to  office 4  51 

Fraudulent  registration 14  63 

Female  diseases,  advertising  cures  for 17  229 

Filthy  or  lewd  conduct  in  streets 29  231 

Firing  guns  or  pistols 1  183 

Flying  kites  in  streets 7  227 

Fraud  in  weighing  meats 3  225 


296 


INDEX. 


PENALTY,  continued:                                                                                Section.  Paga. 

Fraudulent  impounding 20  255 

Frequenting  gaming  houses Q  185 

Gaming  in  licensed  hall 7  157 

Giving  light  weight  in  the  sale  of  coal 3  177 

Goods  on  sidewalks 17  237 

Hackmen  at  depot  not  obeying  police 16  94 

Hackmen  deceiving  passengers 49  175 

Hackmen  misleading  passengers 51  175 

Hackmen  refusing  to  give  number  and  deceiving 50  175 

Hackmen  refusing  to  obey  police 26  170 

Having  in  possession  gaming  devices 4  185 

Hindering  capture  of  dogs 9  180 

Hindering  firemen 13  98 

Horse  railroads  not  keeping  track  in  repair 4  220 

Illegally  firing  oft"  cannon 5  183 

Illegally  keeping  hay  scales 1  19Q 

Illegally  storing  combustibles 4  183- 

Illegal  sale  of  fireworks 6  184 

Indecent  exposure  of  animals 15  228 

Indecent  exposure  of  person 19  229 

Inmates  of  houses  ot  ill  fame 18  229 

Interested  persons  buying  at  sale  of  impounded  animals 15  254 

Injuring  or  destroying  lamps  or  lamp  posts 8  121 

Injuring  receiving  basins 3  129 

Injuring  water  hydrants 6  154 

Junk  dealers  not  keeping  book 17  266 

Jumping  on  cars  while  in  motion 32  232 

Keeping  ashes  in  wooden  boxes 9  183 

Keeping  barking  dog 13  181 

Keeping  defective  sidewalks 21  140 

Keeping  burglars'  tools 1  226 

Keeping  devices  for  gaming 1  184 

Keeping  disorderly  house 4  259 

Keeping  goods  on  sidewalk. 17  237 

Keeping  houses  of  ill  fame 18  229 

Keeping  intelligence  office  without  license 5  222 

Keeping  market  without  license 1  225 

Keeping  unclean  butchers'  cellars 6  225 

Keeping  uncleaned  hides,  gut  fat,  etc 2  225- 

Keeping  unclean  privies 14  and  15  237 

Keeping  unlawful  packing  or  rendering  house 7  235 

Keeping  vehicles  in  street 6  144 

Killing  or  wounding  birds 31  231 

Laying  sewer  without  permit 7  130 

Leaving  cellar  door  or  coal  hole  open 21  140 

Leaving  horses  loose  in  streets 9  219 

Licensed  coachmen  refusing  to  carry  passengers 24  169 

Lighting  or  extinguishing  street  lamps 3  120 

Loading  rubbish  so  as  to  scatter  in  street  13  146 

Loaning  guns  or  pistols  to  minors 2  183 

Loaning  wrenches  to  fire  hydrants 7  154 

Lounging  on  street  corners 12  228 

Maintaining  unsafe  building 76  113 

Making  false  representations  at  intelligence  offices 6  222 

Manufacturing  explosives 14  189 

Maintaining  nuisances  (3)  8  235 

Misconduct  of  oil  inspector 6  53 

Misplacing  street  sign-- 5  121 

Misrepresentations  at  auctions 11  160 

Nauseous  factories 12  236 

Neglecting  to  erect  safeguards  at  railroad  crossings 12  257 


INDKX.  297 

PENALTY,  continued :  [Section.    Page-. 

Neglecting  to  remove  rubbish  from  streets \'l  14ft 

Neglecting  to  report  articles  left  in  omnibus 18  168 

Neglect  to  report  sale  of  licensed  coach 13  107. 

Neglecting  to  trim  trees 24  140 

Night  scavengers  doing  work  without  license 14  264 

Not  building  private  drains  in  accordance  with  order 8  130 

Not  building  sidewalks  to  grade Sand  7  136 

Not  complying  with  building  chapter 48-  100 

Not  erecting  railings  and    keeping  lights   at  excavations    in 

streets 20  147 

Not  having  doors  open  outward 2.  57 

Not  having   sign  on  building  containing  explosives 16  18J)- 

Not  keeping  flagman  at  railroad  crossings :!."> 

Not  numbering  houses 5  and  6  122-3 

Not  obeying  orders  of  firerrten 11  98 

Not  obtaining  coach  license 14  167 

Notposting  saloon  license 7  260 

Not  providing  hitching  rings  in  sidewalks 20  140 

Not  providing  stairways  or  protecting  machinery 48  109 

Not  removing  defective  awnings 18  i:'!> 

Not  removing  obstructions  in  new  streets 8  145 

Not  removing  obstructions  in  streets 4  144 

Not  removing  obstruction  to  sidewalk 28  141 

Not  repairing  sidewalk 15  138 

Not  removing  snow  from  sidewalks 29  141 

Not  removing  unlawful  signs 3  142 

Obstructing  gutters,  etc 5  227 

Obstructing  police  from  seizing  gaming  devices 7  185 

Obstructing  sidewalks 17  139 

Obstructing  sidewalks  by  hitching  horses  to 19  139 

Obstructing  stop-cocks  to  water  hydrants 14  ^  155 

Obstructing  streets .'. 3  ^  144 

Obstructing  street  crossings .• 24  140 

On  lands  sold  for  taxes 42  27 

Oil  dealers  not  reporting 7  54 

Opening  signal  boxes 20  9ft 

Opium  smoking  resorts 36  232 

Overcharging  for  licensed  coaches 21  169 

Owners  of  hall  allowing  unlicensed  show '   9  157 

Painting  or  posting  advertisements  on  curbs 5  143 

Pawnbroker  refusing  compliance  with   ordinance 9  247 

Pedlars  violating  ordinance 11  244 

Permitting  nuisances  to  remain 10  236 

Personating  firemen 10  98 

Personating  officer 15          94 

Piling  hay  or  straw  near  building  8  182 

Piling  lumber,  etc.,  in  street 10  145 

Placing  obstructions  in  aisles  of  public  halls 12  158 

Playing  faro,  roulette,  etc 2  184 

Police  neglecting  to  perform  duty 1:»  93 

Porters  and  runners  violating  ordinance 10  250 

Possession  of  keys  to  engine  house,  etc 17  '     99 

Posting  bills  on  telegraph  poles 19  99 

Posting  notices  of  skill  in  curing  disease 83  232. 

Practicing  shows  or  games  in  streets 2  226 

Public  burial  of  persons  dying  of  contagious  diseases 133  217 

Putting  barbs  or  spikes  on  fences 10  228 

Racing 6  219 

Railroads    violating   ordinance 16  258 

Refusing  police  entrance  to  gaming  house 3  184 

Refusing  to  allow  officer  to  examine  sewer It  181 


2p8  INDEX. 

PENALTY,  continued:                                                       .                         Section.  Page. 

•  Refusing  to  turn  to  right  in  streets 27  231 

Removing  coal  hole  cover 12  137 

Removing  house  numbers 4  121 

Removing  lamp  posts 7  121 

Removing  lamps 6  121 

Removing  notice  of  contagious  disease 117  214 

Removing  sod  from  streets  or  lots 13  228 

Repairing  buildings  in  streets 15  146 

Resisting  officer 14  94 

Resisting  removal  of  obstructions  in  streets 9  145 

Riot  or  disturbance  in  streets 40  233 

Sale  of  poisons 25  230 

Scattering  rubbish  in  streets 11  145 

Scattering  shavings  in  streets ; 7  182 

Scavengers  failing  to  report '. 6  262 

Scavengers  removing  contents  of  vaults  without  permit 4  262 

Second  hand  and  junk  dealers  without  license 1  264 

Second  hand  dealers  and  junk  shops  violating  ordinance 30  268 

Second  hand  dealers  not  keeping  books 7  265 

Second  hand  dealers  not  showing  stolen  goods 28  268 

Selling  animals  or  vehicles  in  street 17  146 

Selling  horses  at  auction  in  streets 8  219 

Selling  indecent  books  and  pictures 22  230 

Selling  liquors  in  public  halls  without  permit 11  158 

Selling  liquor  to  habitual  drunkards 11  260 

Selling  liquor  to  minors  and  keeping  disorderly  house 12  260 

Selling  liquor  without  license 8  260 

Selling  returned  unwholesome  bread 7  163 

Selling  tainted  meat 63  204 

Selling  uninspected  oil 7  54 

Selling  unwholesome  bread 3  163 

Sewer  builder  violating  ordinance 14  132 

Showing  without  license '. 1  156 

Slaughtering  animals — unsound   mea..t 3  234 

Shows,  exhibitions,  etc  ,  on  Sunday 17  158 

Standing  indoor  way  of  public  halls 16  158 

Storing  dynamite,  nitro-glycerine,  etc 15  189 

Substituting  articles  boughtat  auction 10  160 

Teachers  violating  ordinance  in  regard  to  contagious  diseases  126  215 

Tearing  up  pavement 2  144 

Throwing  fruit  peeling  on  sidewalk 11  228 

Throwing  rubbish  in  streets 4  227 

Throwing  stones  in  streets 8  227 

Throwing  water  on  roadway  of  street 35  232 

Turning  on  water  unlawfully 21  128 

Unlawfully  posting   hand    bills 9  227 

Unlawful! v  turning  on  water 11  154 

Unlicensed  pawnbrokers 1  243 

Unlicensed  pedlars 1  245 

Unlicensed  porter  or  runner 1  248 

Unlicensed  work  on  water  pipes 15  155 

Using  cart  after  license  is  revoked 39  173 

Using  counterfeit  brands  of  oil 7  54 

.Using  fire  hvdrants 4  154 

Vagrancy....". 14  228 

Venereal  diseases,  advertising  cures  for 16  229 

Vicious  animals  in  streets 34  232 

Violating  building  chapter 83  114 

Violating  chapter  on  dogs li  181 

Violating  chapter  on  hay 7  191 

Violating  chapter  on  health 141  218 


INDEX.  299 

PKN  \[.rv,  continual :  Section. 

Violating  chapter  on  plumbing 5 

Violating  chapter  on  railroads 1(5 

Violating  chapter  on  signs 3  and  6 

Violating  coach  ordinance 55 

Violating  public  buildings  act ',' 

Violation  of  horse  railwav  chapter 7 

Violating  chapter  on  ice.! 4 

Violating  chapter  on  auctioneers 17 

Violating  chapter  on  water 13 

PERMITS  (See  also  Licenses) : 

For  beating  drums,  etc 38         2:33 

For  explosives— when  expire — who  not  to  have — fees 12         189 

For  rendering 81  and  82        207 

Special  permit  to  auctioneers  to  sell  at  more  than  one  place...  16         161 

Special  permit  to  sell  liquor  at  place  of  amusement 11 

Special  permit  to  transport  gunpowder Band  9         188 

To  bakers 4         163 

To  build  bonfires 2         181 

To  discharge  lire-arms  in  streets 3         183 

To  remove  or  deposit  contents  of  privy 93  and  94  209-10 

To  remove  sick  persons 120 

To  sell  fruits,  books,  etc.  in  streets 39 

To  sell  explosives 1 

PERJURY  : 

Persons  convicted  of,  not  eligible  to  office 4            3 

PETITION  : 

In  case  of  local  improvement 5           18 

PETROLEUM  (See  Explosives). 
PHYSICIAN: 

To  reportdeaths 130        216 

PIPES    (See  Sewers  and  Drains;  also  Water). 

PLATS  (See  also  Maps) : 

Duty  of  owner 1         124 

Not  valid  until  approved 40           16 

Of  highways,  etc.,  to  be  recorded 9           55 

Penalty  for  not  recording 9           56 

To  be  approved  and  filed 2         124 

Vacation,  plats  of  to  be  recorded. 9          56 

PLUMBERS: 

Branch  or  sub-service  pipes 15         127 

Boilers  to  be  provided  with  tank — town  not  responsible 17         127 

Changes  of  form  to  be  reported 3         125 

Connections  of  stop-cocks 14        127 

Excavations  in  streets 10         126 

Fees  for  insertion  of  service  cocks 9         128 

Filling  trenches — deposit  to  cover  damages 16         127 

Firm  licenses  not  transferable 4        125 

Forfeited  licenses 25         128 

Licenses  expire 6         125 

Licenses  forfeited,  when 5         125 

Necessary  steps  to  obtain  license 2        125 

Permits  for  alterations 18         127 

Permits  for  introduction  or  use  of  water 7         125 

Penalty  for  turning  on  water 21          128 

Permits  to  be  returned 24         128 

Responsible  for  acts  of  employes 6         125 

Running  water  closets  to  have  meters 22         128 

.Sewer  pipes,  how  laid 12         126 


3OO  INDEX. 

PLUMBERS,  continued:                                                                              Section.  Page, 

Shall  be  licensed 1  124 

Size  of  pipe 11  126 

Stop  and  water  cocks 13  127 

Street  mains  to  be  tapped  only  by  tappers 8  125 

To  give  notice  of  change 20  128 

Under  supervision  of  water  commissioner 28  128 

Water  meters  to  be  tested 18  127 

POLICE  AND  POLICE  DEPARTMENT: 

Authority  to  serve  warrants,  and  possess  power  of  constables.  12  93 

Disabled  members  may  receive  pay 7  93 

Duties  of. 10  93 

Duties  of  the  captain  of. 2  92 

Hackmen,  etc.,  to  obey 16  94 

Intemperate  persons  not  employed 1  92 

May  hold  prisoners  over  night 4  93 

Penalty  for  neglect  of  duty 13  93 

Penalty  for  representing  to  be 15  94 

Penalty  for  resisting 14  94 

Power  of  to  arrest  offenders 11  93 

Power  to  serve  warrants 13  Ig. 

Report  robberies  and  misdemeanors 4  92 

Rules  and  regulations  to  be  furnished  members 8  93 

Shall  aid  strangers  in  finding  residences 3  92 

Shall  arrest  offenders 13  13 

Shall  not  accept  additional  fee  for  services 5  92 

Shall  wear  badge 9  93 

Supervisor  may  permit  members  to  accept  present 6  92 

Take  prisoners  to  headquarters 4  92 

POLICE  COURT: 

Bondsmen  shall  be  householders,  or  make  deposit 8  95 

Board  of  trustees  shall  designate  justice 2  94 

Created " 1  94 

Justices  shall  keep  list  of  prisoners,  and  make  report 5  95 

Police  captain  may  approve  bond 7  95 

Police  to  arraign  offenders 4  95 

Court  to  be  held  daily 3  95 

Prisoners  may  give  special  bail 6  95 

POLICE  MAGISTRATES   (See  also  Police  Court) : 

May  be  elected,  when 1  56 

Term  of  not  abridged , 2  57 

Term  of  office  and  jurisdiction 1  56 

PORTERS  AND  RUNNERS: 

x   At  railroad  depots,  to  have  consent  of  road,  and  wear  badge...  5  249 

Fees  of  public  porters 7  250 

License  and  bond  for 1  248 

License  of  hotels  may  be  changed 2  248 

Not  to  make  noise  or  disturbance 8  250 

Not  to  solicit  without  license 4  249 

Not  to  use  deceit,  or  misrepresent 6  250 

Penalty  for  violating  ordinance 10  250 

Police  may  arrest 9  250 

To  have  license  and  badge,  and  present  card 3  248 

PORTICOS   (See  Buildings;  also,  Sidewalks). 

POUNDS: 

Compensation  of  keeper 22  255 

Driving  animals  from  enclosure  to  pound — penalty 20  255 

Duty  of  keeper 5  251 

Excess  of  proceeds  ot  sale 19  254 


INDEX.  3OI 

POINDS,  continued:  .  Section.    Page. 

Execution  against  impounded  animals  .................................  13         253 

Fees  for  impounding  and  sustenance  ...................................  7        252 

Hindering  persons  taking  animals  to  pound  .......................  17         254 

Judgment  against  owners,  proceedings  to  obtain  ...................  9         252 

Keeper  neglecting  duty  .....................................................  5        251 

Keeper  to  execute  bond  .....................................................  3         'J~>1 

Keeper  to  keep  account  of  expenses  ....................................  21         255 

Keeper  to  make  monthly  report  ..........................................  18        254 

Keepers  elected  ................................................................  4        251 

Limits  denned  —  penalty  ....................................................  1         251 

Notice  to  unknown  owner,  form  of.  ....................................  10        252 

Penalty  for  breaking  open  .................................................  16         254 

Persons  impounding  not  to  buy  at  sale  —  penalty  ..................  15         254 

Redeeming  animals  from  ...................................................  8        252 

Sale  of  animals  to  satisfy  executions  ..................................  14        253 

Supervisor  to  locate  and  construct  .....................................  2        251 

Taking  animals  to  ......................................................  6         251 

Title  to  suit  against  unknown  owner  ...................................  11         253 

Trial  by  jury  ....................................................................  12         253- 

POUNDKEEPER   (See  Pounds). 
POWDER   (See  Gunpowder). 

PRESIDENT: 

Election  of.  .....................................................................  4 

Preside  at  meetings  ..........................................................  4            8 

Supervisor  not  eligible  ......................................................  4            8 

PRESIDENT  PRO  TEM: 

How  elected  ...................................................................  4            8 

PRINTING   (See  Official  Paper). 

PRISONERS: 

May  be  confined  ..............................................................  14          14 

Escaping,  may  be  returned  ................................................  14           14 

May  give  bail  ......................................................  6,  7  and  8          95 

PRIVIES   (See  Health;  also  Nuisances). 

PUBLIC  BUILDINGS: 

Doors  to  open  outward  ......................................................  1           57 

May  be  closed  by  officers,  when  ..........................................  57 

Penalty  for  not  having  doors  open,  outward  .........................  2          57 

PUBLIC  CARTMEN  .  (See  Coaches,  Cabs  and  Carts). 

PUBLIC  MONEY  : 

No  appropriation  for  sectarian  purposes  ..............................  3             4 

PUBLIC  OFFICERS: 

General  assembly  shall  not  extend  term  of  ........................  28 

Q- 

QUARANTINE  (See  Health;  also  Contagious  Diseases). 

QUORUM  : 

Majority  to  constitute  .......................................................  7 


E. 


RACING  (See  Horses). 
RAFFLE  (See  Amusements). 


3O2  INDEX. 

RAILROADS:                                                                                                                                  Section.  Page. 

Damages  for  running  faster  than  allowed 24  58 

Employees  to  be  furnished  with  ordinance 8  256 

Empty  cars  in  streets 10  257 

Erect  sign-boards 7  256 

Escape  of  steam  in  streets 9  257 

Frogs  and  switches  in  streets 15  258 

Length  of  trains 14  258 

May  erect  flag-house  in  street 35  58 

Names  of  employees  violating  ordinance  to  be  furnished 8  256 

Penalty  for  not  keeping  flagman 35  58 

Penalty  for  violating  chapter  on 16  258 

Shall  keep  flagman 35  58 

Speed  of  trains : 1  255 

Speed  through  cities  and  towns,  rate  of. 24  58 

Stopping  on  crossings 2  and  3  255-6 

To  keep  lights  on  locomotives  and  cars 4  256 

Unloading  cars  or  erecting  switch-houses  in  streets 5  256 

Unnecessary  whistling  prohibited 6  256 

Viaducts  or  safeguards  at  street  crossings — penalty. .11,  12  and  13  257-8 

RATES  OF  FARE  (See  Fares). 
REDEMPTIONS  (See  Taxes). 

REGISTRATION  OF  ELECTORS: 

Addition  of  new  names  and  corrections 6  61 

Additions  to  list,  how  made 2  60 

Blanks  to  be  furnished 18  64 

Board  of 1  59 

Compensation  of  board 12  63 

Copies  of  final  list  to  be  made  and  filed 7  62 

Copies  of  list  to  be  made 2  60 

Copy  of  list  to  be  kept  for  revision 2  60 

Entries  on  registry  by  clerks 8  62 

False  statements  in  relation  to — penalty  for \ 8  63 

False  swearing,  penalty  for 14  63 

Fraud  by  members  of  board,  penalty 14  64 

Fraudulent  registration,  penalty  for 14  63 

In  incorporated  cities  and  towns 1  59 

Law  goes  into  effect 20  64 

List  of  electors  to  be  posted 1  59 

List  open  to  inspection 11  63 

List  to  be  filed  with  town  clerk 2  60 

List  to  be  posted 2  60 

Meeting  of  board  of. 1  59 

Names  on  previous  poll -list  to  be  copied 2  59 

New  election  districts — how  list  shall  be  made 3  60 

Non-registered  voter  may  prove  his  right  to  vote 7  62 

Number  of  street  to  be  given  in  cities 8  62 

Penalty  for  defacing  list 2  60 

Poll  and  register  lisrt  to  be  filed 9  63 

Preserving  order  at 13  63 

Proceedings  of  board  to  be  open 5  61 

Second  meeting  of  board 4  60 

RENDERIES  AND  RENDERING 

(See  Slaughtering;  also  Nuisances). 

RELIGIOUS  WORSHIP: 

Disturbing  religious  assemblies 30  231 

REPEAL: 

Former  act  repealed 41  16 

Ordinances  conflicting  repealed 1  272 


INDEX.  303 

RESIGNATION  (See  Officers;  also  Offices). 

RESIN  (See  Explosives). 

REVENUE  ( See  Special  Assessments;  also  Taxation). 

ROOFS  (See  Buildings). 

RUNNERS  (See  Porters  and  Runners). 

s. 

SALARIES  (See  Fees). 

SALOONS :  Section.  Page. 

Bonds  under  statutes  of  Illinois 15  261 

Disorderly  houses 4  259 

Election  day,  not  to  be  open  on 16  261 

Fees  for  license 2  255) 

Licenses — bonds — regulation  of. 1  258 

Licenses,  expiration  of. 3  259 

Licenses,  how  obtained 14  261 

Licenses  may  be  revoked 5  259 

Licenses  to  be  posted ;...  (5  and  7  259-60 

Not  to  sell  to  habitual  drunkards 11  260 

Openat  night 10  260 

Selling  at  other  places  than  named  in  license 9  260 

Selling  liquor  without  license,  exception 8  260 

Selling  to  minors — disorderly  house 12  200 

Where  not  to  be  kept — parks 13  261 

SALOON  BONDS: 

How  taken — suits  on 5  42 

SCAFFOLDS: 

Insecure  scaffolds  declared  a  nuisance 26  230 

SCALES  (See  Weights  and  Measures). 

SCAVENGERS: 

Air  tight  vessels  to  be  used 8  262 

Bonds  of— license  fees 3  262 

Fees  of  night  scavengers 11  263 

License  for— defined ...I  and  2    261-2 

Night  scavengers  not  complying  with  health  regulations 14  264 

Night  scavengers  to  have  name  painted  on  wagon 9  263 

Offensive  vaults  to  be  cleaned 12  ~ii:'> 

Owners  may  clean  vaults 2  262 

Penalty  for  working  without  license 14  264 

Permits  to  describe  where  work  is  to  be  done 5  262 

Privies  to  be  cleaned  at  expense  of  owner.' 13  263 

Regulations  for  removing  contents  of  privies 10  263 

To  make  report  to  Health  Commissioner 6  262 

To  obtain  permit  from  health  commissioner 4  262 

Work  to  be  done  quickly  and  inoffensively 7  262 

SEAL: 

Seal  of  The  Town  of  Lake,  impression  of. 1  91 

SECOND  HAND  DEALERS  (See  also  Junk  Dealers): 

Advertised  goods  to  be  reported 27  268 

Bond  of. 265 

Books  open  to  inspection 6  265 

Change  of  place  of  business  to  be  reported 22 

Keep  account  of  articles  sold 5  265 

License  fee  for 

Licenses  of. 2  264 

License  required 1 

Licenses  in  force  to  June  30 26  268 


304  INDEX. 

SECOND  HAND  DEALERS,  continued:                                                   Section.  Page. 

License  to  designate  place  of  business 25  268 

Lost  or  stolen  goods  to  be  exhibited 28  268 

Not  to  purchase  between  10  P.  M.  and  6  A.  M 24  268 

Not  to  purchase  of  minors 23  267 

Not  to  take  out  pawn  broker's  or  junk  dealer's  license 8  265 

Penalty  30  268 

Penalty  for  not  keeping  books 7  265 

Police  "to  inspect 29  268 

Revoking  licenses 9  265 

SEWERAGE  (See, Sewers  and  Drains): 

Contiguous  towns  may  contract  with  each  other  for 1  68 

Sewerage  contract  between  towns,  how  made 2  68 

SEWERS  AND  DRAINS  : 

Back  filling  and  paving  over  drains (17)  17  134 

Barriers  and  lights  to  drains  when  open (18)  17  134 

Blowing  off  from  steam  boilers  into (20)  17  135 

Builders  to  file  bond 11  131 

Butchers'  offal  or  garbage  not  to  be  thrown  into 3  129 

Caving  in  to  be  prevented (6)  17  133 

Catch  basins  and  connections,  how  built (11)  17  134 

Catch  basin  not  to  be  built-in  street (12)  17  134 

Change  of  firm  or  name  to  be  reported 12  131 

Connecting  drain  pipe  with (15)  17  134 

Copartnership  licenses 13  131 

Crossing  gas  or  water  pipes (19)  17  134 

Curves  to  be  used  in  making  angles (22)  19  135 

Double  houses  connected  with (23)  17  135 

Ends  of  pipes  to  be  guarded (9)  17  133 

Excavation  without  permit  forbidden 6  130 

Extending  drain  pipes  and  new  connections (2)  17  132 

Forfeiture  of  license  for  violation  of  ordinance 14  132 

Gutters  to  be  cleaned  before  flushing 4  129 

Heavy  weights  not  to  be  placed  upon 3  129 

House  drains,  etc.,  not  to  be  laid  without  permit 7  130 

Inclination  and  grade  of. (8)  17  133 

Information  to  be  furnished (21)  17  135 

Inside  of,  to  be  smooth (14)  17  134 

Licensed  builders  responsible  for  employes 15  132 

Licenses  expire,  when 15  132 

Name  not  to  be  used  by  other  persons (4)  17  133 

Notice  to  be  given  superintendent  of  work  on (1)  17  132 

Open  pipes  to  run  into  catch  basins (10)  17  133 

Penalty  for  injuring  receiving  basins,  etc 3  129 

Permit  to  be  exhibited (3)  17  132 

Permits  to  be  in  hands  of  builders  before  commencing  work..  16  132 

Petition  for  license  to  build 11  131 

Pipes  to  be  approved (7)  17  133 

Police  to  enforce  ordinance  in  regard  to 5  130 

Private  drains  to  be  built  in  conformity  to  orders — penalty....  8  130 

Privy  vaults,  how  connected  with  sewer "(13)  17  134 

Sewer  builder,  license  for 10  131 

Steam  from  boilers  not  to  be  turned  into 1  129 

Superintendent  of,  shall  have  access  to : 9  131 

Water  closets  and  other  connections  to  have  plenty  of  water..  2  129 

Wooden  drains,  obstruction  of. ." (16)  17  134 

Work  to  be  done  without  injury  to (5)  17  133 

SHOWS    (See  Amusements). 
.SIDEWALKS: 

Awnings,  how  erected 18  139 

Built  by  taxation,  manner  of  procedure 1  68 


INDEX.  305 

."SIDEWALKS,  continued :                                                                                        Section.  Page. 

Cartmen  to  repair 21  111 

Carts  not  to  be  driven   upon 2<i  141 

Coal  holes  to  be  covered 9  i;;; 

Costs  of,  how  defrayed H  i;c, 

County  treasurer  to  apply  for  judgment  for  taxes ,">  71 

Crossings  of,  not  to  be  obstructed 2-|  140 

Failing  to  build,  owners  niav  be  made  to  pay •,'  C9 

General  revenue  laws  shall  govern   proceedings .">  ~\ 

Goods  not  to  remain  on — space  allowed 22  140 

Grades  of,  penalty  for  not  confoi ming  to 5  !:;r, 

Grass  plats  not  to  be  covered  with 8  187 

Hitching  horses  to.... 1!)  139 

Hitching  posts  or  rings  to  be  provided 20  14Q 

Horses  or  vehicles  not  to  be  driven  over 2:5  140 

Horses,  wheelbarrows,  or  other  obstructions,  not  allowed  on..  25  140 

Inclination  of. 0  186 

Iron  railings  not  to  obstruct 6  136 

Judgment  for — non-payment  of  tax 3  70 

List  of  delinquents  to  be  returned  to  county  treasurer 4  70 

Manner  of  constructing 1  135 

Must  be  laid  to  grade — penalty  for  violating 7  136 

Obstruction  of — space  allotted  to  owner 17  139 

Occupant  responsible  for  open  coal  holes 11  137 

Open  cellar  doors,  etc 21  140 

Ordinance  to  determine  location  and  mode  of  construction....       2  69 

Owners  may  be  required  to  build 2  69 

Owner  responsible  for  damages  from  defective  coal  holes 10  137 

Penalty  for  keeping  defective 21  140 

Police  to  report  defects  in :!1  141 

Removing  covering  to  vaults,  etc.,  regulations  for 12  137 

Snow  and  other  obstructions  to  be  removed  from 29  141 

'Special  tax  may  be  levied  for 2  70 

Stairways,  etc.,  extending  into 6  136 

Steam  boilers,  etc.,  not  allowed  under 13  188 

Street  crossings,  how  laid 2  135 

Supervisor  may  order  new  covering  to  coal  holes 14  138 

Supervisor  may  order  repair 15  138 

Supervisor  may  remove  obstructions  at  owner's  expense 29  141 

Town  may  build  and  collect  of  owner 3  (»«i 

Town  may  sue  owner 3  70 

Vehicles  not  allowed  on 26  141 

When  owner  constructs,  town  shall  pay 6  71 

Width  of 4  136 

Windows,  etc.,  projecting  over 16  138 

•SIGNS  : 

Advertisements  not  to  be  posted  without  consent 5  143 

Goods  displayed,  regulations  for 4  142 

Not  to  be  suspended  more  than  three  feet  from  building 1  142 

Penalty  for  suspending  in  violation  of  ordinance 2  142 

Penalty  for  violating  chapter f!  1  •!:; 

Police  to  enforce  ordinance 7  148 

Unlawful  signs  to  be  removed 3  142 

SINKING  Frxn    (Sec  Municipal  Bonds). 
.-SLAUGHTER INC;  AND  SI.AI-C.IIII  K    ll<>i  M  I 

(See  also  Health;  also  Nuisances). 
SLEIGHS   (See  Coaches,  Cabs  and  Carts). 
SMOKE  HOUSES    (See  Buildings). 
SOAP  FACTORY    (See  Nuisances). 
-Son   (See  Streets). 


306 


INDEX. 


SPECIAL  ASSESSMENTS:                                                                           Section.  Page. 

Application    for  judgment 40  27 

Assessment  roll  to  be  made 26  23 

Board  shall  pass  ordinance  for 19  21 

Cities  may  buy  at  sale  of. v 3  (55 

City  or  village  may  buy  in 45  28 

Clerk  shall  file  certificate  and  issue  warrant 35  25 

Collection  by  suit,  ho\v  made 52  29 

Collector  liable  for  mistakes 42  27 

Collector's  notice,  form  of. 37  25 

Collector  to  call  for  tax 38  26 

Collector  to  mark  paid 38  26 

Collector  to  report  collections  and  delinquencies 39  26 

Compensation  of  collector 43  27 

Commissioners  to  take  oath — form  of.  — 23  22 

Contractors  not  to  have  lien  on  town 49  29 

Contracts  for,  how  let — approval  of. 50  29 

Continuance  for  unlawful  notice 29  24 

County  collectors  to  collect  special  assessments 178  65 

Court  may  appoint  supplemental  commissioners 52  30 

Court  may   modify 33  24 

Duty  of  commissioners 24  22 

Estimate  of  co'st 20  21 

Form  of  warrant — sufficient  authority 36  25 

General    Assembly    may   invest   corporate   authorities    with 

power  to  levy 9  4 

General  revenue  laws   apply 44  27 

If  too  large,  shall   be   refunded 47  28 

Judgment  certified  to  by  clerk 35  25 

Judgment  for  and  objections  to 39  26 

Judgment  several — appeal — lien 34  25 

Lien  on  real  estate 51  29 

Lien  on  real   estate — limitation 48  28 

Manner  of  hearing 31  24 

New  assessments  against  delinquents,  how  made 48  28 

New  assessment  to  be  made  when  set   aside 46  28 

Notice  by  mail,  posting  and  publication 27  23 

Notice  to  known  owners  by  mail (1)  27  23 

Objections  and  judgments 30  24 

Officers  shall  pay  over  moneys  collected 43  27 

Owners  to  be  given  fifteen  days'   notice 19  21 

Petition  shall  run  in  name  of  corporation 22  22 

Petition   to  be   filed 21  21 

Precedence 32  24 

Proceedings  same  as    in  local  improvement 18  21 

Proceedings  to  collect 51  29 

Proof  of  publication  of  notices  to  be   filed 28  24 

Redemption  from  sale 41  27 

Returns  of  sales  of. 41  27 

Supplemental  assessments,  when    made 47  28 

Supplemental  petition  for  assessment,  how  made 53  30 

To  be  petitioned  for  or  passed  by  a  two-thirds  vote (2)  15  14 

Towns  may  adopt  part  of  act 54  30 

Unknown  owners  notified   by    publication (2)  27  23 

SPECIAL    LAWS: 

General  Assembly  shall  not  pass 22  3 

SPIKES  (See  Barbed  Wire). 
SPIRITOUS  LIQUORS  (See  Saloons). 
STALLIONS  (See  Horses). 
STEPS  (See  Sidewalks). 
STRAW  (See  Streets). 


INDEX.  307 

STREETS:  Section.    Page. 

Adjacent  owners  to  recover  land  when  vacated 2           72 

Animals  or  vehicles  not  to  be  sold    in 17         140 

Articles  removed  from  to  be  sold 5         144 

Aye  and  nay  vote  on    vacation 1           73 

Board  to  grant  permission  to  lay  pipes  in 18         147 

Buildings  not  to  be    erected    in 7         14.~i 

Buildings  not  to  remain  in  longer  than  permit  specifies 15         140 

Contractors  liable    for  damage :23         148 

Damages  for  vacation 1           72 

Incumbering  or  obstructing :{         144 

Lumber  or  cars  not  to  obstruct 10         145 

Names  of  streets   on  corners 16         MI', 

Neglecting  to  remove  obstructions 9         145 

Not  to  be  paved  until  sewers  and  water  pipes   are   laid 19         147 

Obstructions  on,  to  be  removed 8         145 

Officers    to  see   that  railings  are  maintained 24         148 

Pavement  not  to  be  torn  up  without  permit 2         144 

Railings  and  lights  at   excavations 20          1  17 

Railings  and  lights  to  be  kept  up  by  town 25         148 

Railings  around  street  excavations,  defined. ..(1,  2,  3,  4  and  5)  22         147 

Red  lights  to  be  exposed  in 14        146 

Removal  of  obstructions 4         111 

Stone,  ice,  and  rubbish  to  be  conveyed  in  tight  boxes 11         145 

Three-fourths  vote  necessary  to   vacate 1           72 

To  be  kept  clear   of  obstructions 1         143 

Wagons  loaded  with  rubbish  not  to  be  heaped  up 13.        146 

Who  shall  erect  railings  or  keep  lights 21         147 

Vehicles  not  to  stand   in 6         144 

STREET  LAMPS  (See  Lamps). 

STREET  SIGNS  (See  Signs). 

STOLEN  PROPERTY  (See  Second  Hand  and  Junk  Dealers). 

STONES  (See  Streets). 

STOVES  AND  STOVE  PIPES  (See  Buildings). 

STUD  HORSES  (See  Horses.) 

SUINE  (See  Butterine). 

SUPERINTENDENT  OF  PUBLIC  WORKS  (See  Supervisor). 

SUPERINTENDENT  OF  STREETS  (See  Supervisor). 

SUPERINTENDENT  OF  WATER  (See  Supervisor). 

SUPERVISOR  : 

Abate  nuisances 6 

As  treasurer,  receive  moneys 2 

Bond  approved 5 

Commission  for  collecting 5 

Enforce  sanitary  laws  and  regulations 6 

Execute  bond 5 

Ex  ojfficio  treasurer,  chief  of  police,  etc 1 

Have  charge  of  sewers  and  drains,  etc 9 

Keep  account  of  moneys  5 

Keep  books  of  account 3 

May  appoint  deputies 

M;iv  appoint  special  police 5 

May  charge  fee  for  building  private  sewer 11           84 

May  examine  houses,  cellars,  etc.,  and  cause  nuisances  to  be 

removed 0 

May  grant  permission  to  build  private  sewers,  etc 11 

May  require  repair  of  streets,  etc 7 

May  serve  notice  to  abate  nuisance 6 

Preserve  the  peace  and  enforce  the  laws 4 

Render  statement  to  board 2           83 

21 


308  INDEX. 

.SUPERVISOR,  continued:                                                                          Section.  Page. 

Shall  be  superintendent  of  fire  department 12  85 

Shall  collect  \vaterrentsorassessments 8  84 

Shall  have  charge  of  public  improvements  and  special  assess- 
ment   7  85 

Shall  have  custody  of  engines,  etc 13  85 

Shall  superintend  building  of  sewers 8  84 

Shall  superintend  erection  of  public  buildings,  etc 8  84 

Shall  have  superintendence  of  streets,  etc 8  84 

Shall  prescribe  mode  of  opening  sewers  and  drains 10  84 

Supervise  the  police 4  83 

To  regulate  use  of  streets 7  84 

Treasurer  of  town  5  8 

SURETIES   (See  also  bonds).  « 

Effects  to  be  delivered  to 12  42 

Release  of 10  41 

Removing  building 74  113 

T. 

TANKS  (See  Buildings). 

TALLOW  CHANDLERS  (See  Health). 

TAXES: 

Corporate  authorities  may  be  vested  with  power  to  levy  and 

collect 9  4 

General  assembly  shall  not  impose  on  municipal  corporations  10  4 

Emergency   clause 3  68 

How  assessed  and  collected 1  65 

In  cities,  etc.,  county  clerk  to  extend  1  66 

In  incorporated  towns,  rate  of 1  67 

Manner  of  collecting 2  66 

Not  to  exceed  two  per  cent 1  66 

Officers  to  certify  rates  122  64 

Ordinance  levying 1  66 

Return  of  delinquent  special  assessments 178  64 

Shall   be  uniform  5  67 

Special  assessments  may  be  transferred  to  tax  books  178  65 

Prior  levies  made  legal  3  67 

Time  for  paying  over 2  66 

Treasurer  shall  keep  separate  funds  apart 4  66 

TELEGRAPH  COMPANIES: 

Must  obtain  consent  to  erect  poles  on  streets  or  highways —  4  72 

TENEMENT  HOUSES  (  See  Health). 
THEATRES  (See  Amusements). 

THE  TOWN  OF  LAKE   (See  also  Board  of  Trustees) : 

Board  of  trustees 3  7 

Boundaries  of. 2 

Charter  in  force 42  16 

Charter  of 7 

Election  of  officers 39  16 

Incorporated  1 

May  hold,  enjoy  and  sell  property 1 

Mav  sue  and  be  sued 1  7 

Officers  of 

Organization  to  continue 38  15 

TOWN  ATTORNEY: 

Conduct  law  business  and  draw  ordinances  1 

Furnish  written  opinions  2 

Make  annual  report 4  89 

Turn  over  papers  to  successor 3  89 


INDEX. 


309 


TOWN  CLERK:                                                                                                                 Section.  Page. 

Attend  meetings  of  board  and  keep  record  of  proceedings....  1  87 

Clerk  of  board  4  g 

File  with  county  clerk  appropriation  ordinance 4  87 

Keep  account  of  warrants  drawn 9  10 

Keep  corporate  seal 1  80 

Keep  office  at  the  town  hall 1  86 

Keep  record  of  proceedings 4  8 

Keep  records  and  papers 1  86 

Make  certified  copies  of  papers 1  87 

Notify  officers  of  their  election 3  87 

Prepare  and  sign  warrants 1  87 

Record  ordinances  and  publish  the  same 2  87 

Shall  file  assessment  rolls 5  87 

TREASURER  (See  Supervisor). 

TREASURY : 

Money  paid  out  only  on  warrant 9  10 

TREES  : 

To  be  trimmed  ten  feet  from  ground 4  149 

Not  tobe  destroyed 3  149 

Not  to  obstruct  street  lamps 1  148 

TRUSTEES  (See  also  Board  of  Trustees): 

Election  of 89  16 

One  elected  annually,  and  hold  office  two  years 39  16 


u. 

URINALS  (See  Health). 

V. 


VACCINATION  (See  Health;  also  Contagious  Diseases). 

VAGRANCY: 

Vagrancy  defined 14        228 

VAGRANTS  (See  Vagrancy). 
VARIETY  SHOWS  (See  Amusements). 
VARNISH  FACTORY  (See  Nuisances). 
VEHICLES  (See  also  Coaches,  Cabs  and  Carts): 

Vehicles  in  streets  to  turn  to  right 27        281 

VENEREAL  DISEASES  (See  Health). 


w. 


WAGONS  (See  Coache»,  Cabs  and  Carts). 
WALLS  (See  Buildings). 

WARRANTS  ON  TREASURY: 

Demand  warrants  onlv  drawn  against  funds  actually  on  hand       1 
In  anticipation  of  taxes,  not  to  exceed  seventy-five  percent... 

Shall  be  received  in  payment  of  taxes 

Shall  show  on  f;i«-c  how  paid 2 

Taxes  set  apart  for  payment 2 


3IO  INDEX. 

WATER :                                                                                                                                Section.  Page. 

Additions  and  alterations  in  pipes (3)  1  150 

Attics  and  basements,  how  considered (2)  2  151 

Breaking  or  injuring  hvdrants 6  154 

Extra  rates  for  large  families (8)  2  157 

Fire  hvdrants 5  154 

Fraudulent  representation  by  applicant  for (0)  1  150 

Hose  sprinkling,  time  of 8  154 

Hydrants  not  allowed  on  sidewalks — not  to  be  kept  running  (5)  5  150 

Joint  service  pipes,  failure  to  pay  tax  on (2)  1  149 

Keeping  service  pipes  in  repair (4)  1  150 

Meters,  rates  for (8)  2  153 

Obstructing  stop  cocks 14  155 

Occupants  not  to  supply  neighbors (1)  1  149 

Officers  to  have  free  access  to  examine  pipes (7)  1  150 

Police  to  enforce  ordinance 16  155 

Public  hydrants  not  to  be  used  by  private  persons 4  153 

Rates  for  stores (5)  2  153 

Rates  for  street  sprinklers (6)  2  153 

Rates  when  paid,  failure  to  pay (8)  1  150 

Tariff  of  rates  for  miscellaneous  purposes (4)  2  151 

Scale  of  rates  for  private  dwellings (1)  2  151 

Service  pipes  not  to  be  disturbed 10  154 

Street  sprinklers,  license  and  regulations  for (7)  2  153 

Supervisor  may  remit  rates 3  153 

Waste  of  water  prohibited 9  154 

Water  tanks,  regulations  of 12  155 

Wrenches  to  fire  hydrants  not  to  be  loaned 7  154 

Unlawfully  turning  on  water 11  154 

Unlicensed  work  on,  prohibited 15  155 

WATER  CLOSETS  (See  Health). 
WATER  RATES  (See  Water). 

WATER  WORKS  (See  also  Water): 

Act  does  not  apply,  where 7  75 

Assessments  already  ordered  included 3  77 

Contracts  let  to  lowest  bidder 1  74 

Emergency 4  77 

Emergency  clause 8  75 

Installments  and  interest,  when  payable 2  76 

Jurisdiction  extended 3  75 

Lien  on  property  for  tax 4  75 

May  acquire  property  for 3 

May  borrow  money  for 2  74 

May  issue  bonds  for 1  76 

May  levy  tax  for 4  75 

May  make  rules,  etc 4  75 

May  make  special  assessment 5  75 

No  member  of  board  to  be  interested  in  contracts 1  74 

Power  to  supply  water 1  74 

Separate  fund  shall  be  kept 6  75 

Special  assessment  may  be  paid  in  installments 1  76 

WEAPONS  (See  Concealed  Weapons). 

WEIGHERS  (See  also  Weights  and  Measures): 

Attend  to  business  during  reasonable  hours 6  269 

Bond  of. 2  269 

Certificates  not  to  be  altered 10  270 

Empty  vehicle  to  be  weighed 9  270 

Fees  of — keep  account — furnish  certificate 7  269 

Scales  to  be  sealed — to  weigh  coal,  hay,  etc 4  269 

Supervisor  to  examine  books 11  270 


INDEX.  311 

WEIGHERS,  continued:                                                                            Section.  Page. 

To  appoint  deputies,  responsible  for 5  269 

To  be  appointed 1  269 

To.  keep  book 8  270 

To  provide  scales 8  269 

WEIGHTS  AND  M  I:\SI-RES  (See  also  Weighers): 

Fees  of  sealer (1,  2,  3,  4,  5  and  6)  7  271 

Duty  of  sealer 4  271 

Non-resident  pedlars  to  have  scales  sealed 9  272 

Not  to  be  altered 6  272 

Owner  of  to  correct 4  271 

Sealer  of  to  be  appointed 3  271 

Sealer  to  keep  office  and  book  of  registry 8  272 

Sealer  to  report .". 8  272 

Standard  of. 1  270 

To  be  exhibited  to  sealer 5  271 

To  be  tested 2  270 

Unstamped  or  condemned  not  to  be  used 5  £71 

WHISTLES  (See  Steam  Whistles). 
WINDOWS  (See  Buildings,  also  Streets). 

Y. 

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